ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



druggist were to talk about the comparative 

 influences of potash or of some simple styptic 

 upon an irritated mucous membrane, to a man 

 who wants simply — something to cure a sore 

 throat. It is the aim of the Horticulturist to 

 push both land and plants to the last limit of 

 their capacity — to establish new varieties — 

 to provoke nature by incessant pinchings into 

 some abnormal development; whereas the aim 

 of the mass of suburban residents is to have 

 a cheery array of flowers — good fruit and 

 plenty of it, at the smallest possible cost. If 

 indeed the latter have any hope of winning 

 what they wish, by simple transfer of their 

 home from city to country, without any care 

 or cost whatever, they are grossly mistaken. 

 If a mere, bald love of fruit-eating, without 

 any love for the ways of its production — calls 

 a man to the country, I would strongly advise 

 him to stay in town, and buy fruit at the city 

 markets; and the man who goes into the 

 country merely to stretch his legs, I would as 

 strongly advise to do it on Broadway, or in 

 bed. Nature is a mistress that must be wooed 

 with a will; and there is no mistress worth 

 the having, that must not be wooed in the 

 same way. 



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