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but which far excel in fragrance and beauty those that are to be 

 found in the gardens of the other two classes to which I will refer. 



The second class of floriculturists are those who get outside 

 professional help to do the heavy work, often from want of time to 

 do it themselves, to give them due credit for their efforts, and then 

 look after the easier and more enjoyable parts of the work themselves. 

 Such gardens often have rarer and more showy plants than are to be 

 found in the first class of gardens. 



The third class of floriculturists are the purely professional, and 

 while the gardens taken care of by them are often more admired by 

 the ordinary passerby because of the gorgeous and costly plants they 

 contain, the owners of these gardens will not have the satisfaction 

 that they would have experienced if they had taken either complete 

 charge or even the partial amount which fell to the lot of those in 

 my second class. 



Let us now return to our text, so to speak, and see where the 

 simile is applicable. To begin with, I think we can divide methods 

 of education into three great classes, viz. : ist, home teaching ; 2nd, 

 part home and part school education ; and 3rd, complete school or 

 professional methods. 



The first class that I would refer to are the professional class, 

 and of their methods I have but this to say, that having been edu- 

 cated myself in a great measure in the common schools of our 

 beloved Province I have the deepest respect and gratitude for their 

 methods, but at the same time I would say this that I think they 

 will be most successful when they achieve the utilitarian and not the 

 ornamental only, when to return to our simile, they show in their 

 gardens the good old domestic plants brought to a higher stage of 

 perfection by the more successful methods at the disposal of the 

 professional gardener. 



The second or middle class therefore is the one that should be 

 most successful, as it should combine the amateur or domestic class 

 and the professional, but unfortunately it often tends to take only a 

 smattering from both, but not their strong points, which would make 

 such a powerful union. 



The last or domestic class is the one to which I would draw 

 particular attention because in a great measure it comprises those 



