THE PRIVATE GARDENER. 109 



Too many men prefer to largely confine themselves to the green- 

 house work. This is not the most essential feature on an estate, 

 important though it may be. Landscape features, collections of 

 trees and shrubs, perennials and bulbous plants, natural gardening, 

 and up-to-date vegetable gardens were impoitant requisites. 



The question of remuneration would solve itself; he believed 

 the deserving man would get his reward, and the constantly dis- 

 satisfied and shifting class were not those likely to rise in their 

 profession. 



