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dener's skill and patience) he should be ready to make 

 allowance, as there is little to be done in working 

 against nature ; and to the most attentive and skilful 

 in the art of gardening, accidents will sometimes 

 happen, that might have been prevented. " In the 

 work of a garden there is no such thing as always 

 proceeding with certainty, and insuring success." 

 A gentleman should consider that he who furnishes 



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him with fruits and vegetables, almost lives in the 

 garden ; and that he cannot relax in his duty without 

 his neglect being manifest, by serious consequences 

 following it. There is always something for him to 

 do, that must be done now, to sow, plant, prune, 

 dress, &c. c. 



" Whoever will giv^ himself the pains to trace a 

 good gardener through the several stages of his em- 

 ploy, in all the seasons of the year, will iind it to be 

 one continued circle of labour and toil." 



A gardener is, in many respects, differently situ- 

 ated to the other servants about a gentleman's house, 

 and these discriminating circumstances are what may 

 be said (according to general estimation) not to his 

 advantage. A gardener has reason, indeed, to love 

 his employment, as he meets with health and tran- 

 quillity in the exercise of it-f^at considering what he 

 is, and what he does, in his pfoper capacity, he may 

 justly claim a superior degree of estimation and re- 

 ward. A true gentleman is of a liberal spirit, and I 

 would plead for his gardener as a proper person to be 

 generous towards, if his manners be good. 



FINIS. 



Law avid Gilbert, Printers* St. John's-bqaare, Loncki*. 



