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a hand for more than fifty years, and that it had never wanted 

 nor had a glove, or his body a great coat or cloak, although now 

 between seventy and eighty years of age. That his education, and 

 that of his father — early to bed, 9 o'clock, and early to rise, 4^ 

 o'clock, A. M., to labor at every sort of work, garden, wood-chop- 

 ping, &c. &c., every day in season; and then, often, from the ma- 

 nure and mud, to cleaning up perfectly, fine linen, and even lace 

 ruffles, and silks and perfumes. The doctrine was that no one 

 was a gentleman who did not work at least his garden. U. S. 

 Senator James Hillhouse worked like a common laborer, both in 

 his own fields and on the public parks and streets. In 1794 he 

 dug holes for planting elms on New Haven Green, and I held 

 them between my finger and thumb, standing them as ordered by 

 him in their holes, wliile he shovelled in the earth and stamped 

 it down. He worked with sleeves rolled up, and an old hat on, 

 as hard as any man. I saw Noah Webster at work in his garden, 

 and a more beautiful one is rarely seen. I saw Madam Heyliger, 

 a lady of wealth, at hard work in her large garden, cultivating in 

 broad plat bands some ten thousand tulips. One of the richest 

 citizens cultivated a garden of one or two acres, in the most per- 

 fect manner, with his own hands entirely. He was always at 

 work at 4 o'clock, a. m., and never out of bed at 9 o'clock, p. m., 

 He had been wealthy in youth, got the gout at 30, went to work, 

 and saved himself in fine health and spirits until past 70 years 

 of age. 



Dr. Peck, of Brooklyn, reminded the Club of the fine lines of 

 Goldsmith on the virtue of labor in the garden and field. He 

 remarked that the book of Judge Burwell would in all probabi- 

 lity be much prized. Such a one is extensively wanted. 



Judge Burwell said that although there were several books of 

 a like kind in some measure, yet that his differed from them in 

 being, as he believed, more plain for ordinary readers. 



George E. Waring observed that his little volume had consid- 

 erable circulation, but not a supply for the public want in that 

 line. He said that we cannot have too many good books on agri- 

 culture, both scientific and practical, and was happy to find his 

 honorable friend, Judge Burwell, at work in this great cause. 



Professor Youmans gave the same sentiments more at large on 

 the same subject. 



Dr. Peck called the attention of the Club to the very interest- 

 ing example of Mr. Charles Wilson, of Brooklyn, in redeeming 

 from the ancient and monstrous prejudice of many as to the lands 



