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of all kinds, ami can make of tliein pictures with which, for real 

 beauty, uothing in the way of art can compare. He knows all 

 about them while we only know what he has done. 



So miH'h to show that the professor is dependent ui)on the 

 gardener for scientific truths, and the gardener is entirely indepen- 

 dent of the professor. 



The gardener should be educated not only up to the times but 

 far ahead. The plants of forty years ago have no place in the 

 garden of today ; while those of a hundred years ago may have, 

 as novelties. Change, the universal law of Nature, is the order 

 of the da}'. This is not due to fickle caprice, but is neeessar}' to 

 satisf}' the increasing demand for the beautiful, — a demand that 

 is imperative and exacting. Not that we tire of old forms or 

 colors in the flowers, or the delicious qualities of our vegetables 

 and fruits ; but the spirit of progress which marks this era is 

 reaching far and wide for the perfection in development that 

 knows no limit. This spirit should stimulate the gardener to more 

 constant, sj'stematic, and noble effort in his profession. It is to 

 him and to him alone that we are indebted for the garden of today 

 in contrast to that of Mty years ago. In thiS country, flowers 

 were then regarded as luxuries ; today they are necessities. The 

 desire for a good garden is now so nearly universal that the excep- 

 tion only proves the rule ; and there can be no gardens without 

 gardeners. Some of the best — at least the most enthusiastic — 

 are amateurs, and to them we are largely indebted not only for the 

 improvement in floral forms but for the development of taste that 

 makes gardening a profitable profession. Though amateurs, many 

 of them are wealthy, but still they are gardeners if they love and 

 work in the garden, and if there is one influence more powerful 

 than another in removing that distinction in society which wealth 

 creates, it is a love for and a common interest in the beautiful. 

 This love united with other elements of character, will bring into 

 harmony all classes of men having congenial tastes, and cause 

 them to become warm and congenial friends. These signs of 

 human equality rarely appear in any other walk in life. There is 

 no bond of affection between a merchant and his clerks, manufac- 

 turers and their emploj'^es, such as is frequently seen between the 

 owner of the garden and the toiler in it. 



The gardener, whether private or commercial, should always be 

 on the alert for something new. His success will be proportioned 



