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the time instead of furthering the interests of their employer. Be up in the cool 

 of the morning, take the hoe or spade in hand yourself^ put in an hour-and-a-half 

 at some profitable effort before breakfast, and it will not be long, if you persevere 

 before you will see how it will pay financially. Then you will have a hearty 

 appetite for your breakfast, and you can eat so as to strengthen your body for four 

 or five hours, honest toil before the dinner hour. If you have hired help, your 

 presence with them in the work will inspire them with respect and confidence, 

 and they will work with a better relish if the " boss " takes a hand with them. 

 Besides you will have a better knowledge of what is to be done and how to direct 

 labor to advantage, then if you trust everything to a " foreman " as some do. 

 Be your own foreman, and you will not only profit financially and physically, but 

 you will be able to sympathize with the laborer, and be more inclined to humility 

 in your intercourse with your fellow-men around you, a quality very precious in 

 the sight of God and man. 



There are more of the elements of success wrapt up in your own individuality 

 than you may think, and if properly applied they will render their consequent 

 fruits in due season. This may seem like foolish talk to the man who lies in 

 bed to seven or eight o'clock, and gets up to breakfast without breathing the 

 fresh air of the morning ; but to the practical man, who hopes to succeed and 

 enjoy his success, it is quite in place if they put it in practice, as it has been the 

 privilege of the writer of this paper to do. It is said of the late Peter Henderson, 

 who was a noble example of success in the garden industry, that he personally 

 superintended his various lines of effort, and at one time an editor of a horticul- 

 tural magazine in Boston, who had published some of his contributions, visited 

 him at his garden near New York and found him on a manure pile turning it as 

 a preparation for further use. There is true grace in the come down principle, 

 from the sublimity of ideal conception to the practical needful effort of every- 

 day experience. It is well to have right theoretical conceptions, but if not ac- 

 companied with practical manifestations, they are of little or no value. Patience, 

 perseverence, calmness of mind, trust in God. and a teachable spirit are all 

 necessary if we would each keep his own vineyard, and these, accompanied by a 

 proper application, in their due season, of such means as produce the required 

 results, all combine to develop the three-fold profit to purse, body and soul. 



Nepean, /uly loth, i8gi. L. Foote. 



Rose Beetle and Hot Water. — The R.N.Y. reports having experimented 

 with hot water as an insecticide and been quite successful. The rose beetle was 

 found to succumb to a spray of water heated to 125 degrees, and was rapidly 

 exterminated, and some bushes were completely cleared of them by the use of 

 this simple remedy. The potato beetle was found able to endure water of this 

 temperature ; but it was destroyed by the application of water of a temperature 

 of 150 degrees. 



