*34 How to Make the Garden Pay. 



The gardener everywhere has to face this difficulty of get- 

 ting intelligent labor labor which alone is worth having, and 

 worth paying for. It is well worth the trouble perhaps an ab- 

 solute necessity for the market gardener to educate his work- 

 hands, and then try to keep those permanently that suit his 

 requirements. In the first place he must plan to have work 

 all through the year, summer and winter, and to engage his men 

 by the year, and year after year. We can better afford to give a 

 good price to thoroughly skilled workmen, than to employ care- 

 less and unintelligent raw hands at a one-third rate. 



To make our good hands still more contented to stay, and 

 willing scholars, good books and treatises on gardening, and the 

 better class of horticultural periodicals should be freely provided 

 for them, and the employer should not neglect to acquaint them 

 with his plans of operation, and the reasons for the adoption 

 of the various courses in garden management. 



Everything, in short, must be done to make them feel as if 

 it were their own work they are engaged in, and to make them 

 do it with an object in view other than the mere passing away 

 the time, and getting their pay for "time." If this latter is the 

 only consideration for which their work is given, it will most 

 surely be of inferior quality, and not worth its price. 



