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labour, tlie necessary knowledge of the 

 business he has under his care cannot be 

 acquired ; and although among the great 

 mass of men who are exercising this 

 business, some are to be found of this de- 

 scription, yet a great number know much 

 less than they ought to know; and the 

 consequence fora length of time, has been 

 the loss of reputation to that profession 

 collectively, and the general bad manage- 

 ment that is to be seen where a variety of 

 gardeners have lived. 



Let us hope, then, for the general good, 

 that some measures may be adopted that 

 will give the proper advantage to those 

 who have spent their youth in this 

 pursuit, arrd to secure them the prefer- 

 ence of employment over those persons 

 who were so long ago complained * of 

 by some of our countrymen, justly 

 celebrated for their abilities in horticul- 

 ture. 



* " There area sort of men who call themselves 

 " gard'?iers ; and of them, not a i'cw, who having 

 •'' wrought at labouring work at the new making of 



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