, 1892-02-06

growing venetables and roses was as well
known TO the Romans of twenty centuries ago
as il is to English and French market
gardeners Of to-day. Mr.. Gladstone might DO
worse upon his return from the Continent than
discourse. Is he alone can, upon the merits Of
Sc humble d vegetable as parsley. The walls
Of the school room at Hawardeu have already
echoed TO he praises oil cho3p jam, and despite
the repeated warnings inserted by Mr. Tcget-
me.e- in TIE Field, the ey-Prjme Minister,
hlsi3g himself upon tie astonishing fact that
each successive day which rolls over or
hetds sees foreign EGGS worth ten thousand
pounds imported iuth the United Kingdom, is
not unnaturally Of opinion th.t "a large portion
Of this amazil4- mass mign, b- raised at home.
Way, ID Gly Well be asked snor. indeed, 81
ws.sae low this very pertinent question can
be rs cred why are the French provinces
OF NarmouIy and Brittany able to send m
oaormon> AID u~nintermittent supply OF eggs
to England. while simultaneously English men
and English womep. VITA & climate Al least as
gsod as that Of Nov, Ii -NcsteIu France, are able
indeed. to cousum3 tggs1o any amount all the
year round, but ABSOLUTELY powerlcss tc pro-
dlee amy 2" Il il 70 BE- feared that asin many
other departments of skilled lab0ur, we are
allowing tha foreigner ~ oatstrpu us from want
Of s|l.ac.ty, peg5iateucY. and skill. How
AMY lsses5 90 we evey hear of ia which a small
English farmer. q c%9ttirr. or a day labourer
cmultt,a the silent ana Industrious grower Of
paisley, Wiz upon the light-soiled belt which
r1las across Bedlorishire, from the Great
Northern Railway ar Sandy Station to the
London and North Western line near leighton
Buzl'ri Station. avails himself Of thorich op-
pottutitios Co.. wjnuinga fortune naf9w years
which lie at 1is fret2
Il il pity thtt ma AZ ne generous giyers
Of prize. TO- essays ON Eli sorts Of subjects,
such Is strikes, co-opclatlou. and Iauper or
convict .abour, there ale none to@rd to invite
their .hougAtfl i ccmpqtriots to mediate ana
wit. upon The rewards If Well.directed
and Etcl.i- mt Toll" Take another Instance
winch has lately come un3cr oar observation,
aul which We comm nit the special attention
ot the Royal Agricultural Society and Of cog
nate Institutions. In the same district Of
Merry Engiqud where dwclls the successful
ulsley-growor to- whom we have Just referred
there is 20 lie found mothot and still moro
striking excmplifc ton Of the wealth result
mn under i|uIc'ols handling from La Petite
Cuiture,' as it is called in France. a man who
"a Tow years since was. we believe. wholly dos-
titlto Of capital had upon his hands a half-acro
strip Of waste OF larren land. Setting HIM
So { diligently to work to acquire practical
knlnlel1p as Ia The right way Of rails ng mush-
rooms, Ne hasso utilised his opportunity that DUR
iug the year which closed last week he is said
40 have made fifteen hundred pounds by the
eaie Of mushrooms alone, Every one is fond
Of this delicious e~sclient, without which ac-
oomplished cooks would desp nr Of imparting an
agreeable favour TO all sorts Of dishes. Gan it
for one moment be pretended that there is not
room and verge enough for thousands of small
growers Of mushrooms within a hundred miles
If this omniyorous Metropolis? Not a year
passes without seeing thousands and hundreds
of thousands Of En|glislmen, Scotchmen, and
Irishmcn-the very bone and sinew of their
native Embarrassing the seas and transferring
themselves to a new and distant domicile Of
which they know nothing, because unable to
earn a bare subsistence at home. How many
Of these humble adventurers'-we use the
word as it was employed during 'the spacious
times Of Great Ehzabeth"-bave ever meditatv
cd how nickle is the powerful grace that lies
in norDs. plants. stones, and their true quail
ties?'' The poet of ali time continues in his
own immortal words to teach us that 'there's
nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to
tho earth some special good doth give; Ner
aught SO good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse"
The moral Of these beautiful lines fs SO plain
that he who runs may read 1t. No man and
no woman, however poor, however feeble, igno-
rant. and degraded, but has a competency lying