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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 78, 30 March 1892, Page 2

The important subject of technical eda« cation m gardening has at length £ taken up la England, aud as will ba noticed by the following prospeotua it ia proposed to establish aMtt3rH&?s aardenuig, where lada may have anoppo?- ' fiiSf d ° ta^ °- f e «s eaia «>. : The prospectus X? h Wl,dB / 8 tol i ow ß:~'«Attehtioa haa htely been directed to the importanoe of SSff do r el ?P meQt °* gardening, « aY means for the better utiliaatipn of tfa 8 ffJJ and many of the highest autfcoritiei 6i 1 nMf 11 "^ h ™ «°™dered that C ?\ ho l d !i lgß • more *& Boientu; fioaly treated by spado industry, form.fchV best and likeliest solution , of the present laud problem m this ojuntry. l a order to promote these objeota in the near futuW, ai > •'" well as to improve the education of work m? ' ' gardeners in goaera i the Worshipful Company ol Gardeners, acting in oa operation with the Royal Horticultural Society °iL^l\ C , lta !. a ' V m to^tablish a - British hchool of gardening, where lads of v fifteen to eighteen years of age may receive/'a thoroughly practical tcLEfiaM the details of their draft, * together- / with such simple elementary eoiontifio in- \ struotion as may be sufficient , to enaWa " them to take an intelligent interest in an? ; gain some htfele real insight into the manX \ told operations of nature with whioh they ' , \v\ '$ > h ?n &me mba "onceraed. ThS Worshipful Company of Gardeners prppoae* to furnish a house at Ohisyviok \iT the immeaiate neigabourhood of tho> Royal llortioultural aooiety's Gardens) for the Reception of students, and 2 sppo fas ZJZT, t0 f 0t v aa i^ttuotow and lecturers, and to establish classes for tha Ed 2SLI3? 8 «■ *" «■*^ o!g«deniSg The Tost ST? l ? i*. h ? flooiet y ,9 aatdehs. '. , vZ^llJ^r a lad Uvi °8 at tha 80hool # '-< would ba £45 per annum, inoluaiva of awrr thing e« e^ clothidg, ™i t * t °, 6TB & . s"' hl9 ?">m, an initial Bum ot JR.T red ' aad «£«ther iaooine of ~4>Q will be wanted for three years, after which time the sohool should become eelf- l supporting, it i s proposed to raise the necessary mouey by subscription, tha Worn .. shipful Company of Gardeners he.idhV the list with a donation of £250.

Tho London correspondent of the Man* Chester Guardian hears that Mr Froudo has finished life of jhord Beaoonsfield for the series of < The . Queen's ,Prjme Ministers;' Lord Rothsohild una given him- access tia /, Lord Beaconsfieid's letters to his sister, Muia Sarah Disraeli, and to Mrs Brydgea-i' Williams, and to other correspondence preserved at Tring Park. Mrs BrydgeaWilhamß was a lady of Jewish descent, hying at 'lorquay, who fell iv lay a with Mr Disraeli's writing on behalf ot his and her race, and bequeathed him her fortune on condition that they were to be, buried in the soma grave. Mrs Brydges-WiUiame .predeceased her friend and was buried at Boghenden. Had, therefore, Lord BeacoDafleld been buried iv Westmiuster Abbey, it would have involved disinterring his. benefa'a'tresa and. transferring her remains to the Abbey. This was, of oourae, impossible, aud they both rest in the pretty village ohurohyard of Hughenden.

Mildura was started (says an Australian T paper) as an exclusively temperance settle* meut, and from the first no hotel was allowed within its borders. The oiroumstaneea seemed eminently favourable for the qarry--ing out of the experiment. The settlers at Mildura are well known to be a picked population, mostly young men of thrifty habita v and good bringing up. Their occupation -fruit-growing— ia quite idyllic in ita suggestion of rural innooence, and in an irrigation colony there ought- to; be no ■ aoaroity of water. In spite of all tbia how- -. • ever, and in spite of the foot that there beio* no hotelfl, it waa noticed from time to time that the inhabitants of Mildura oonttfved. ' ' co get into a state of considerable hilarity; It was dear, ia short, that either' they ' managed to get supplies of alcoholio re. f reshments without the aid of the licensed pubhoan, or else that fruit-growing waa & far more oxhilerating process than had over been auspaoted. The seoret oame out at a ' n recent sitting of tho Mildura Court 6f petty sessions, when no fewer than 26' oaseS o£ - ely-grog selling oame before tha Benotn The defendants were of all sorts of trades and conditions, inoluding tailors, ohemista and oven a medical man. The Argns, in oommeuting on the proseoution, very truly '■ remarks :--" The fundamental mistake that * prohibitionists make is in euppoaing that tha worst offouae a man can commit is to take a glass of beer or spirits. They seem entirely, to overlook the faot that il ib infinitely mm' ' to praotiae deceit or to commit penury to both of which their folioy la dueotly incentive.

It ia gratifying to learn that the serious question of retaining the population in rural districts haa to a degree dcgrea been satisfactorily solved in Cornwall, and Qor- r nish folk will be glad to hear that ia. the ' fruit-growing diatriote of St, Dominiok the ,1 industry of basket-making, in connection with (strawberry culture, haa developed to a wonderful extent. Thirty years ain.ee the reputation of Cornish strawberries had itofc oroased loo&l bounds ; now they are grown extensively for the London and other mar* ' kets. About ioo aorea ai* devoted to , strawberry culture in. the. parishes 6f./$£ Dommiok and Oalatock, and it thay tebpnithat 10,000 boxes and 600,000 punneta are . required for the marfcoting of the qsop. *uty baskets aro packed into a box, and the rrmt is well protected f.om injury, In addition to local requiremehta, Mr JYW. Haway, of Bowtherie, St. Dominiok, W "•.'- --oontraoted to supply, for the oorajpr 1600 gross of'ljasketi for Soofcland^ Women '" and children are employed in £iaKih> pads "' nets during winter, and piokiol^lrM it!'* summer.- ;' . . ' .' ;; v ;•'.;";'.■ ' *> , :"':^-' t w'r':~ '•"• ! Acwrdingipftefltdtfoi^^ ! Government has deoidedti* order,; t rant ßhwv " ** W. G, ,Arinßtrong,,MitoheU&iCo;s of^wiok, & ; -i a cruiser of 3,600 tons displaoetUt^aS^ ; ( M no less than 15,000 ludicfeaESeAf / She is to be capable ot.an .ejKtremeVpWof^ ? <: i^l 2* knots, or 27;6 statute raiifla aaioW -and ; i -# she will be by^ iJ^^c^S^Sm^ world. Japan already possessed two 'm^era^M^l cruisers of about 18 fenote, oheVabbnti^^^ii knofcj. and three of 1$ knofcaVaad a wlmf^ H gun-yease! ot 22 knot*, : '•:• * ? ™:*™W^*^