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do it here, in this earnest home, not a home by virtue 

 of a short or a longer lease, but by virtue of liberty 

 and industry. Where liberty dwells there is our 

 country ! 



One word more to the address of gentlemen's gard- 

 eners. Do not indulge too much in saying that your 

 employer does not like or care for such and such plants, 

 merely because you do not like them yourselves, and 

 he has never told you so. He has got the plants and 

 he pays you to take care of them, that is sufficient 

 reason to do it. A man does not keep a gardener to 

 do exactly what he likes. He, the proprietor, also 

 wants something some compensation for the money 

 he pays, and for which sometimes he does not get one 

 cent of satisfaction for hundreds of dollars spent. I 

 speak ex cathedra from experience. 



It is not very long since I heard a certain chap say 

 he wished such rubbish, plants he did not like were 

 on or under the manure heap, that he could not bear 

 their sight, and would be glad to see them all dead. 

 And he has in a measure acted accordingly. There 

 would not have been so much harm if he had taken 

 good care of those he did not dislike and his employer 

 cared for, but they were all treated alike. To kill a 

 plant, a palm, an Araucaria, or such, because they do 

 not bloom in winter, to cut flowers from, or such irra- 



