THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



creasing interest in gardens must and will be more 

 and more discussed; and in which the gardener's 

 side must be better looked after by his employer 

 than at present seems to be the case. "And if 

 the reply of an alarmed employer might be that 

 all this means higher wages, our reply is, first, that 

 after all it is very little; and secondly, that the 

 garden must be looked at in a new perspective, 

 not as a tiresome and costly appurtenance every 

 penny spent upon which is begrudged, while thou- 

 sands are to be lavished on pictures, old china, 

 and motor-cars, but as a great influence on life." 

 There is reasoning here as cogent as it is vig- 

 orous; I fully agree with this writer, and the more 

 so when I think of the disproportionate use of 

 money by those who would keep down the wages 

 of the men engaged for their gardens; for those 

 labors which go to produce what is becoming 

 daily more and more precious to men and women 

 in this age. Let us who think seriously of these 

 things not only learn to value the services of our 

 own gardeners more fully, but let us spread our 

 convictions upon the subject, and soon must come 

 a better understanding and agreement between 

 employer and employed. 



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