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own soul ; whereas a sale of just as many Hubbardstons to John 

 Bull, who has become naturalized, and votes our especial ticket, 

 is net gain to us of the whole world ! It might then be pertinent 

 to inquire why Medes and Parthians, Elamites and Paphlagoni- 

 ans, draw our wire, and stitch our shoes, while honorable tillage 

 is scorned and none of those choice breeds of the human animal 

 will hire out for the cultivation of the earth, so long as they can 

 sweat, beg or steal, in the crowded town ! Possibly there are 

 good and sufficient reasons, if one is smart enough to discover 

 them; or fat-witted enough to accept them supplied to order; 

 why Hungarian or Polack should delve in the mines of Pennsyl- 

 vania ; while Armenians and Pamphylians throng the shops of 

 Worcester; so-called American Labor fattening upon Home In- 

 dustry, forsooth ! for the support of all which shiftless tribes the 

 Terrseculturist is — taxed ? Oh, no ! only required to pay tribute 

 unto Csesar ! There may be valid arguments, adapted to the 

 comprehension of the coward in politics, why, for the sake 

 of such breechless, illiterate bulwarks of our Republic, we should 

 repel the Chinese or Japanese, cleanly and educated ; whose pro- 

 ficiency in Horticulture is alike a marvel, and a continual re- 

 proach to us in our arrogant conceit ; whose patient labor is pre- 

 cisely what American impatience needs in this very emergency 

 that we are just beginning to recognize, now that we are throt- 

 tled by its gripe ; whom we might well and wisely hire for that 

 intensive culture whereof they are such masters, if they are will- 

 ing to take service ; and whose right to enter the country should 

 be as unrestricted and perfect as that of the filthy Slovack, or 

 those dwellers in Cappadocia who left the land of their nativity 

 for its manifest good and our palpable detriment. 



But, recurring from this digression, if it is such, — do our Mem- 

 bers appreciate, for its true worth, the palm of excellence whereat 

 we formerly set our mark, and have hitherto upheld it ? Do they 

 fully realize how easy it is to forfeit that prime rank in Horti- 

 culture, maintained in the very fore-front of kindred associations? 

 If aye, — why that eagerness to compete at " Shows " of an in- 

 ferior grade ! ofi'ered for money, by Societies that are confessedly 

 " on the make ? " At which confusion worse confounded is the 

 dominant rule ; Floriculture, Horticulture, and the growth of 



