GARDENING. 9 



Study begets refinement, is obvious, and knowledge is essen- 

 tial to the human mind ; the food thus created begets 

 friends who seek for information. Thus we find a pleasure 

 in diffusing that usefulness we may attain by a little study. 

 There are but few Florists that are Botanists. This may 

 appear strange^ but it is an incontrovertable fact, when both 

 could be studied at leisure moments without interfering with ' 

 each other ; and if florists understood the fundamental prin* 

 ciples of botany many errors could be corrected that are now 

 extant, as the practical botanist is sometimes arbitrary in his 

 rules, which is out of the power of the florist to correct. 

 Chemistry is another branch highly essential to the art of 

 gardening, which will be understood in a general point of 

 view before many years elapse. The farming class will 

 find it necessary to know the quality of soil he makes use of 

 to ensure success in his department, as well as the 'practical 

 gardener. It is not my object to crowd the mind of the 

 young amateur in the art of Gardening, or its requisites, for 

 it is simple and can be managed without understanding the 

 theory of botany or chemistry. I only point out the great 

 desideratum of a valuable acquisition to the mind if these 

 theories could be attained. Educated to those sciences the 

 mind would be elevated above the condition that falls to 

 the lot of practical gardeners, and the field of science would 

 be open to discover things the mind does not now con- 

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