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seller of Blenheim pictures was able to find out. But 

 if you are a man of that class which earns money to 

 own it, that class which reverts trade and figures to the 

 channels of deserving merit: you then can be a judge 

 of your purchases and the spirit they are proffered in. 

 It should not happen to you when the governor closes 

 the door of your brougham that he runs back to the 

 office like a kid and burst out: " By god, isn't she a 

 cow?" Such the repute of the Red Duchess of Hay- 

 market-offensiveness. People raised for the purpose of 

 exhibition are pompous in appearance, like the fancy 

 poultry at fairs; but good for nothing else than to fatten 

 on the wheat watered with our brow's sweating. They 

 flourish on being fed stories of the thickest webbing of 

 lies, like the bosh of Eulophiella discoveries in Mada- 

 gascar. Cypripidiurn lo has been raised only once, but 

 if you acquire the gall of putting a couple of dozen 

 grande, splendidum, gracillimum, humbugianum at the 

 tail end of it, you find Johns and Jacks to put up for it. 

 Another kind petition to those generous patrons of 

 orchid culture. In the noble employ which you pursue 

 by devoting your time to orchid culture, you like to be, 

 and you are, discerned from the rest of those which can 

 spend leisure in sportive pursuit. Does it occur to you 

 that the man earing for your mind's pleasure is likewise 

 a discernible character? There is not a profession within 

 reach of our sun's brightening rays which enjoys less 

 eminence, and which at same time can depend on less 

 mutual organization and protection, than the multitude 

 of gardeners. It is likewise true that there is no more 

 noble occupation to mind or body than gardening. 

 None requires the qualities of a high-thinking, deep- 

 feeling mind more than gardening. And again, there 

 is none that is shunned more than this very profession, 



