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education than the old. He must be encouraged and if 

 necessary made to attend evening schools after his years 

 at the elementary school have reached their full tale. 

 His mind must be broadened and sweetened by more 

 advanced studies than those of the village school. More 

 particularly he must be led to expand his sympathies 

 by the study of literature and art. 



Gardening students make the fundamental mistake of 

 confining their studies to garden subjects. Technical 

 knowledge is acquired, but with it narrowness of outlook. 

 Working in a circle, they see nothing beyond it. 



It is true that gardening is a vast subject. One who 

 would become proficient in it must study hard. He 

 might very well spend the whole of a busy life in learning 

 plants and their ways, and still remain ignorant of much 

 that the perfect gardener ought to know. None the less 

 he must save hours for subjects that are apparently re- 

 mote from gardening, and can only further horticultural 

 development indirectly. True gardening knowledge is 

 not for the cramped mind, the cabined intelligence. Its 

 sweep is too wide, too majestic. 



It may be that in the near future the young gardener 

 will find facilities provided for pursuing college courses, 

 where his studies will be systematized and illumined by 

 science. Every year brings fresh advances in the pro- 

 vision of advanced education for the proletariat. College 

 study will certainly modify temperament. It will tend 

 to wipe out class prejudices. In these things alone it will 

 justify itself. 



The new gardener will be more of a flower-gardener 

 than the old, and need not be the less a fruit or vegetable 

 grower. He will give closer study to artistic gardening, 

 and be no longer satisfied with the stiff and common- 

 place methods of the past. This in itself should ensure a 



