THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



don), "Studies in Gardening," has a chapter, and 

 a capital one, which I would commend, and it is 

 called "Behavior to Gardeners." The few para- 

 graphs I shall commit to paper on the subject 

 will deal partly with this matter, the employer's 

 attitude, and partly with the question of salary 

 or wages; in the latter case taking the gardener's 

 own standpoint. 



It has often gone to my heart as a worker 

 among flowers to see the misunderstandings which 

 all too frequently arise between an American and 

 his gardener. And so often this is entirely due 

 to the difference in temperament. The average 

 gardener, slow, careful, methodical, cannot but 

 feel the heckling comments of his employer who 

 wants things done in his way, yet who, in nine 

 cases out of ten, does not know what that way 

 is. The gardener must recognize and resent igno- 

 rance, haste, prejudice, and excessive criticism, and 

 particularly is this hard to bear because as a rule 

 the gardener loves his work, cherishes his plants, 

 and, to his credit be it said, does this more faith- 

 fully and thoroughly than the untrained gardener 

 for whom he labors. 



To take up the other side, for the employer it 

 should be set down that he may himself be a 



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