. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . noon lecture byPrince Kropotkin. He assured us that the pro-duction the soil can be made to yield has hither-to been as nothing compared with what it mightbe made to produce in the future in fruit andvegetables. He showed us some slides of mar- vellous horticultural products under glass, butunfortunately he never told us what the cost ofthis kind of horticulture comes too. Look at the expense of it. There is the cost ofbuildings and heating apparatus, of fuel and estab-lishment of plants, anl upkeep
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . noon lecture byPrince Kropotkin. He assured us that the pro-duction the soil can be made to yield has hither-to been as nothing compared with what it mightbe made to produce in the future in fruit andvegetables. He showed us some slides of mar- vellous horticultural products under glass, butunfortunately he never told us what the cost ofthis kind of horticulture comes too. Look at the expense of it. There is the cost ofbuildings and heating apparatus, of fuel and estab-lishment of plants, anl upkeep. The vigilanceand trouble needed to keep down insect andfungus pests are never ending, and often thebattle, owing to various circumstances, ends in adefeat to the grower. I have heard of Cucumber-plants filling several houses having been thrownaway owing to disease. Nevertheless, some marvellous results havebeen achieved under gla;S by skill d manage-ment and constant vigilance. In the QardenersChronicle of November 21, 1903, p. 319, there is abeautiful picture of a lofty house filled with. Flo. ho.— lysichitoi camts^ratcevse flo\v«ri> IN 1HE TEMIEHArEHOUsK, BOYAL GARDENS, BLEW. splendidly-trained Peach-trees; but six men werephotographed in that Peach-house! Of cours,probably they have other work to attend to, butsuch an extensive Peach house will undoubtedlyrequire a vast deal of labour and glass, nature is only of partial help, it ismostly art that d >es it; and there seems to be agrowiar notion that this art is not sufin-ientlypaid for. In this I agree ?, but raising salaries ofskilled gardeners will not make fruit cheaper tothe community. It is an art that can benefitonly the wealthy. The problem is to find out what particularvarieties of fruit-tree? suit particular localities,so that the general public of small and mediummeans may not waste thtir time and monfy infruitless attempts to find out what varieties willsuit their localities and what wil
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