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time and generosity of even the most liberally disposed. 

 But every gentleman who employs a gardener could well 

 afford to allow that gardener to spend a couple of days in a 

 season in propagating some one or two really valuable trees, 

 shrubs, or plants, that would be a decided acquisition to 

 the gardens of his neighborhood. One or two specimens of 

 such tree or plant thus raised in abundance might be dis- 

 tributed freely during the planting season, or during a given 

 week of the same, to all who would engage to plant and take 

 care of them in their own grounds, and thus this tree or 

 plant would soon become widely distributed about the whole 

 adjacent country. Another season still another desirable 

 tree, or plant might be taken in hand and when ready for 

 home planting might be scattered broadcast among those 

 who desire to possess it, and so the labor of love might go 

 on as convenience dictated till the greater part of the gar- 

 dens, however small, within a considerable circumference 

 would contain at least several of the most valuable, useful, 

 and ornamental trees and shrubs for the climate. 



The second means is by what the nurserymen may do. 



We are very well aware that the first thought which will 

 cross the mind of a selfish and narrow-minded nurseryman 

 (if any such read the foregoing paragraph) is that such a 

 course of gratuitous distribution of good plants, on the part 

 of private persons, will speedily ruin his business. But he 

 was never more greatly mistaken, as both observation and 

 reason will convince him. Who are the nurseryman's best 

 customers? That class of men who have long owned a 

 garden, whether it be half a rood or many acres, who have 

 never planted trees or, if any, have but those not worth 

 planting? Not at all. His best customers are those who 

 have formed a taste for trees by planting them, and who, 

 having got a taste for improving, are seldom idle in the 

 matter and keep pretty regular accounts with the dealers in 

 trees. If you cannot get a person who thinks he has but 

 little time or taste for improving his place to buy trees, 

 and he will accept a plant, or a fruit-tree, or a shade tree, 

 now and then from a neighbor whom he knows to be "curi- 



