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difference of result. As a Roman writer ob- 

 served, two thousand years ago, " Wherever 

 the eyes of the master most frequently ap- 

 proach, there is the greatest increase." Every 

 one knows this to be true in general, but unre- 

 flecting inexperience does not know that the 

 expression has a very peculiar force of mean- 

 ing, with reference to the management of a 

 nursery. 



Another thing, the nursery-trade is not to 

 be learned in a single week. Ten years' ex- 

 perience might grow rich in the business, 

 where five years could hardly get a living, 

 and a yearling novice would certainly starve. 



The nursery business requires very much 

 more skill than ordinary farming, arid its pro- 

 fits are far more uncertain. Upon the whole, 

 it is a much better avocation ? to amuse a rich 

 man's leisure, than to replenish a poor man's 

 purse. The reader may rest assured, that 

 there is no more satisfactory way of arriving 

 at a realizing sense of the truth of this asser- 

 tion, than to give the business a thorough trial. 

 For ourselves, we confess that we have fairly 

 and clearly " seen the elephant" that eats up 

 the profits of raising or buying fruit trees, for 

 sale. 



