ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



new grape, or strawberry, — and of this it may 

 require many years to cure you. You will put 

 faith, at the first, in all the horticultural ad- 

 vices you find in the newspapers, — and of this 

 you will speedily be cured. 



In short, whoever is serious about this mat- 

 ter, of taking a home in the country (if his 

 rural taste be a native sentiment, and not a 

 whim), should abjure the presence of a surly 

 master in the shape of a garderer, who can tell 

 him how the Duke of Buccleugh (or any 

 other) managed such matters. 



God manages all of nature's growth and 

 bloom in such way, that every earnest man 

 with an observant eye can so far trace the laws 

 of His Providence, as to insure to himself a 

 harvest of fruit, or grain, or flowers. And 

 whatever errors may be made are only so 

 many instructors, to teach, and to quicken love 

 by their lesson. 



Let us not then despair of our friend Lack- 

 land, though his cabbages are burnt, and his 

 beets are behind the time. I shall visit him 

 again, and trust that I may find his verbenas 

 and lilies in bloom, though his larkspurs have 

 been cut down. 



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