ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



POMOLOGISTS AND COMMON PEOPLE 



1D0 not know that the Horticulturists 

 proper are the best advisers of a man who 

 wishes — as so many do in these times — 

 to establish his little home in the country, and 

 to make it charming with fruits and flowers, 

 and all manner of green things. I think that 

 the professional tastes or successes of one de- 

 voted to Horticulture might lead him into a 

 great many extravagances of suggestion, in 

 the entertainment of which, the plain country 

 liver— making lamentable failures — would 

 lose courage and faith. The Pomologists 

 may indeed say that there is no reason to 

 make failure if their suggestions are followed 

 to the letter, and the proper amount of care 

 bestowed. This may be very true; but they 

 do not enough consider that nine out of ten 

 who love the country, and its delights of gar- 

 den or orchard, can never be brought to that 

 care and nicety of observation, which, with 

 the devoted Horticulturist, is a second nature. 



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