THE GA RDENERS' CHRONICLE. 





SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1847. 



Bailed, th 

 printed in a 



iiaatelei 



r intelligent correspondent, Mr. Hkmiy 

 ie gardener at Nuneham, in a letter 

 another column, thinks that we no longer 

 y gardeners, as a class, in the esti- 

 •mployers ; and he founds his corn- 



plant upon some remarks that v 



^wwlVSho'havr "™ 

 Mis, as if nobody could be a gardener except those 

 ■bo possess what they in their ignorant self-suffi- 

 oeocy call practice. It is precisely because we 

 ire really anxious to raise the condition of gardeners 

 vbo deserve it that we have ventured to incur the 

 ill-will of those who do not deserve it. If we cared 

 ibout picking up a little dirty popularity, we should 

 «hriiik from a task which might be avoided, and 

 which cannot he executed without the risk of hurt- 

 ine- the feelings of those whom we might desire to 



To avoid all misunderst 

 tbe first place to define w 

 Practical, in the sense in ' 

 class of persons who think 

 Such a "Practical garde 





fused to obey o 



manded him tc 



hough it is al 





garden, has learned how 



«ra«,m which the spade and the pruning knife 

 we the place of the firelock and bayonet; but 

 ■h mind has been forgotten. He has never been 

 taught to think : and therefore he does not think; 



» that he has arrived at the end of all possible 



tE f\ T he Killarne y S( l uires are a S° od 



ff J ' .^ class as it exists in Ireland. The 

 We of Wight once furnished another. We well 

 emember the patient labour and practical skill 

 ; personage performed his daily 

 bVrii n M th ! tl ^ Iand ' for a quarter of a century he 

 "ably trod m the same path as his predecessors, 

 , and died respected. If the 



of Carisbrooke 

 admirer of "p..; 

 u 4 " the donkey ' 



umQ,s work perfectly, 

 |*Mer desires to learn 

 J* recorded in th 

 . C »t]e, where some i 

 ^chalked an epitapl 



w?!? r " whee ! with a11 J^gence for'so years"."" 

 ofiom* P n °k. ? y the indus try and good condi 

 . ">e ot this class. Siir.h virtn ao i.n«r». j;.,i, 



s class. Such virtues coufer < 



J. question here. d 



oillee 





jpen to be learned. There w 

 «»didatZ ' ° f , Botat, y in a University ; two 

 Wm,K appeared ' one remarkable for his pro- 

 vost il t Q \ CXe ? c . e he offered to teach, the other 



^»t?T&l?\- Y P * he ktter was near 



^ ground th friends were asked upon 



^ great re ev vot ed, the reason assigned was 

 te we here? • " ir - / The 1 uestion then which 

 Practical men ° U8Slng 1S not whether the so-called 

 *e the b^st g^ d e e r n e e PeCtable men ' but whether they 

 ^°pinion S L th fk? U L r ex P e »ence entirely confirms 



zv: 



\ f n 



1 which we should 

 J» reasoning. The 



ithuT u .» er - " P. ractica ! " »^ nt .! e . 



'better than°"" " 





s word. What he had < 



s persevered in in 1 



you mink l shall give up inv i.Meihe : 

 opinions of a parcel of boys:"" Tnis old e 

 man's idea of gardening consisted in puttim: a 

 into a pot, sticking a pa«u 



collection of plants hav 

 in his pots might have 

 artillery ; mealy bug and 



healthy growth. 



ment of a garden where 

 1 ' high wages, abutu 



;:.:;;,^ 





l.k«. tin- hL-i,. 





arnitants in profusion. That gai 



rought to its present state by a great " practic; 



lan " of 30 years' standing. 



hundred miles of St. Paul's, to grow Pine-apph 

 i the open soil, without pots. The cxperimei 



the work of a " practical gentleman." 



A great "practical man "received charge of a 

 Arnott stove ; he did not know th.it iron > v \i s h Ik 

 unequally heated, and so, in three hours after 



plate finch thick. He lu-.d always practised leavin 



tgetoutot his b 



■ .CO I o 



■ 



; draw ! Such < 



i of practice ; 

 was of course that 

 the fuel and fire 1 



solid " slag " he finally c 



man's practice. 



have given illusi 



rant reliain > upon practice as ? Vkl ",**,' 



tical men" use it/is an absurditv wuh whi 

 .would have been so simp 

 identify themselves. ItMgnii 

 ha:. 1 1 ." Drunkenness is practice ; laziness 

 tice ; so are slovenliness, contempt tor I 

 awkwardness, if men choose to call them so 



Let it not, however, be supposed that we under 

 value practice, when the word is used : 

 experience, a very different matter. v\nat lDl j ,ul - u . = 

 j^i^v , j ^^ « ee n • the experienced have iaia < 



SrdeSrfiToto^^^ | to a ho» 



and finally reduce- I ; e3 <° j "See 



be the result of his observation, , Teflec '' on ' ^ j a % Thcre I 

 eeneralising ; he is constantly on the waicn it £ 



Irm or correct his observations and mprc 

 conclusions; and out of this he lorm 

 called a theory, which b.nds together h» 



,. : ..'.,:...:.-: . : ' 



barbarians; and so a gardener may -b* ™* 

 practice or blind habit only ; but he 

 dener, and should be called a aboure 

 The cry of Practice, Practice, ha. 

 been raised by men who dread th 

 knowledge. Cunn 

 thing but routine, have ^agincd tna 



j shall make, it s 

 ect, nature and the 



,1 I.„.uineap-ii. 



