CHAPTER XVI 



CONCLUSION 



'T^HE character of professional gardeners 

 seems to be changing. They have be- 

 come more perfunctory, more stubborn, more 

 opinionated, until now it is a really serious 

 question with them of "the danger of a 

 little knowledge." To find a man who com- 

 bines sobriety and a good disposition with a 

 fair knowledge of his business and a real 

 liking for it, is a difficult matter. Where 

 but one man is kept to care for vegetables, 

 flowers and lawn, he is more than Hkely to 

 have little interest beyond potatoes or corn, 

 or to be good at raising small fruits, and to 

 consider everything else he has to do as so 

 much waste of time. When first married, 

 one of our gardeners was a German who 

 took no interest in flowers, and planted half 



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