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toniparatively well, in order that they may be able to afford to be honest, 

 intelligent in their different businesses, cleanly in their persons, and well- 

 behaved in their manners. On the same principle, as country gentlemen 

 and their families acquire more knowledge of botany and gardening, they 

 will desire to have a superior description of gardeners ; and, when this is the 

 case, they will pay them better. In the mean time, the journeyman gardener 

 must consider, that, though he is worse paid than a common labourer, yet 

 •his prospects in life are greatly superior to those of either a labourer or a 

 common in-door servant, neither of whom, generally speaking, can ever 

 hope to rise much above their original sphere; whereas the gardeners, like 

 the members of every other profession requiring mind, rise by system, and 

 from the humblest situation may attain the highest degree of eminence. So 

 much for the immediate causes of, and temporary consolation for, the griev- 

 ances complained of by our correspondent. The fundamental causes of these 

 grievances lie wide and deep, and apply to every class who live by their 

 bodily labour. What is the reason why the ploughman, though better paid 

 than the journeyman gardener, yet eats, drinks, and lodges in a very 

 inferior style to his employer, the farmer ? What is the reason why the 

 farmer can barely pay his rent and exist ? What could the landlord do 

 without the farmer, the farmer without the labourer ? or the country 

 gentleman without his gardener and other servants? Is not the obligation 

 in all these cases mutual? Undoubtedly it is, in the abstract; but practi- 

 cally it is not so : for it is found that there are always more servants than 

 can get employment at good wages ; and more farmers than can get farms 

 at reasonable rents. What, then, is to be done to remedy this evil ? Simply 

 to adapt the supply to the demand. All the difference which now exists 

 between the degree of comfort enjoyed by the employer and the employed, 

 between the landlord and the tenant, the borrower and the lender, are 

 owing to the discrepancy in this respect ; and this discrepancy essentially 

 springs from the ignorance of the one, and the comparative knowledge of 

 the other. If there are examples of ignorance among the employers, the 

 landlords, or the lenders, yet these are not sufficient to hinder them from 

 acting as a body or whole in rewarding labour ; and if there are individuals 

 among the employed fully enlightened, yet these are too few to influence 

 their class, as a body, in withholding labour till it shall receive its adequate 

 reward. For the effectual removal, therefore, of all the evils complained 

 of by our correspondent, we must look to the rising generation, and only 

 to that generation on the supposition that an efficient national system 

 of education is without delay established. It is the duty of all who are of 

 this opinion to impress it on the minds of all. — Cojid. 



Art. II. The Necessity and Advantages of Gardeners visitmg one 

 another's Gardens. By R. T. 



Sir, 

 You will probably recollect that, some time ago, I promised, 

 after paying a visit to some of the gentlemen's seats within 

 my reach, to give you an account of the manner in which I 

 treated some kinds of plants, which appeared to me to attain 

 a greater degree of perfection under my mode of culture than 

 under that of others. This promise I have already in some 

 measure fulfilled, but not to the extent I intended, owing to a 

 multiplicity of business, and other circumstances, which pre- 



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