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to see such care taken for gardeners ! and 

 then to see them when the company came, 

 how different they behaved to what our 

 country sort do ! Why, they walked about 

 amongst the gentry ; and I never so much as 

 saw any body look at any of them, as much 

 as to say, Keep farther off, you gardener. 



There was no stopping before the plants, 

 and arguing, and all that kind of thing we 

 see in the country ; and I laid a pretty deal 

 of it to the Doctor's treading so hard on their 

 toes, and so making 'em keep moving. My 

 friend said he thought it might be so, though 

 he needn't have showed them up so hard; 

 and they'd never forgive him for it, and 

 calling them " practicals." " That's silly 

 enough, too," said I, " after the medicine's 

 cured you, to take offence at the doctor." 



What with the flowers, and the com- 

 pany, and the music, and the place, I never 

 was so glad as when I got back to London. 



A few days after, I went to the show at 

 the Eegent's Park, and very grand it was, 

 and the gardens wonderfully fine for such a 

 smoky spot. When I had seen all I could 

 of the plants, before the tents got crowded, 

 I took a seat, and watched my fellow-crea- 



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