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rock garden in hand is made to feel that she is doing 

 harm by " upsetting the arrangements." The few em- 

 ployers may tolerate this good-naturedly, realizing that 

 it means nothing more than an excess of plant-love. The 

 many less intelligent, less far-seeing and less judicious, 

 will draw false deductions from it and resent it. 



The New Gardening will be participated in more and 

 more by educated people, and the gardener of the future 

 can no longer make of his master's garden a close personal 

 preserve. The New Gardening will create a New Gardener 

 a man who will have good sense enough to see realities, 

 and sufficient tact, not only to feel at home with his 

 employer, but to make the latter feel at home with him. 

 It should surely be impossible for rational human beings 

 to be unable to work together in something congenial to 

 both without friction. A man obsessed with a great love 

 for plants has an innate nobility of character which 

 should secure him respect, and it is lamentable that 

 surface faults should be allowed to obscure his real 

 worth. 



If the new gardener could not acquire reasonable grace 

 of manner without sacrificing some of the enthusiasm for 

 plants which possessed the old it were perhaps well that 

 he should lose a portion, for certainly it is imperative that 

 the garden-lover who employs and the garden-lover who 

 is employed should find a common ground, that they 

 should work together in sympathy and friendship. But 

 one is reluctant to admit that a civilized human being 

 could not be one of the most ardent and skilful of plants- 

 men without becoming unmannerly. The companionship 

 of plants should exercise a refining influence on un- 

 polished natures, and give them charm as well as native 

 grandeur. 



The new gardener must receive a better elementary 



