PRAISE FOR GARDENERS.

Shannon News, 11 October 1927, Page 2

PRAISE FOR GARDENERS.

PROFESSIONAL COMPARISONS. THE BISHOP'S TURNIPS. The Bishop of Carlisle, who opened the Above Dei-went- Horticultural Spciey's show, said gardeners were a particularly estimable race A very good test of the merits of an occupation was to try to think of all those engaged in a particular occupation as a class, said his lordship. Take the clergy as an example! He was told that when they got into a railway carriage other people came and looked* in and then went and took the next one. Take. laAvyers. They all, perhaps, looked with tolerance upon their own lawyer, but he had never met anyone who welcomed a lector from anybody else Vlawyer, and as a class they were not particularly popular. Or take bishops! They could have roc many of them, and he thought that they might almost say that recent appointments had brought them to Avhat might be called the saturation point in bishops. i But, he continued, they had never heard anyone say there were too many" gardeners, or exhibit feelings of hostility to gardeners as a class. They performed what had been said to be the only real function of a statesman —to make two blades grow where only one grew before. Their occupation created many hardy virtues —indomitable paticnee, inexhaustible hope, and, in this climate, all the virtues of endurance.

As a boy he took part in a flowei show and won a prize—for turnips. He got them out of an adjacent farmer's field. After the show the secretary disappeared to the seaside for more than,a week on the entrance money.