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him, and Eoessle employed the op- 

 portunity afforded by the long winter 

 evenings to learn as much of Sears' s 

 beautiful profession as he could. In 

 spring he was employed to lay out the 

 place of Mr. John Prentice, and the work 

 was so well done that a number of lucra- 

 tive jobs were in succession offered to and 

 executed by him. Joining the two trades 

 together, working hard early and late, and 

 living with the strictest frugality, Koessle 

 accumulated property by slow degrees and 

 bettered his circumstances. The quality 

 of his vegetables became at last so well 

 known, that his marketing business in- 

 creased until he was forced to abandon 

 landscape-gardening altogether. 



Celery was his heaviest crop, for he not 



only retailed, and jobbed it out in Albany, 

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