268 Gardeners out of Place, and Nurserymen. 



how I treated those I have had in other places, and then I 

 should have dated this from the place I write from, and 

 should have signed my name ; but the letter of G. R. G. has 

 drawn more of self from me than I then should have given, 

 and more than I should think modest, except in such a case ; 

 and therefore I beg to subscribe myself, 

 Sir, &c. 



A Nobleman's Gardener. 



The judicious and kind conduct of our correspondent has 

 our warmest approbation: we recommend it for imitation, 

 and especially where a garden-library is established. — Cond. 



Art. IV. On the Treatment of Gardeners out of Place by 

 Nurserymen ; in Reply to the Observations of Sensitivus. By 

 A Nurseryman. 



As imaginary hardships destroy the happiness of mankind 

 almost as much as real ones ; and as persons often labour 

 under difficulties which, in a great measure, they are them- 

 selves the occasion of, without discovering that to be the 

 case; and therefore they are disposed to throw the blame 

 upon some other person or circumstance : and such, in my 

 apprehension, being the situation of a Yorkshire gardener, 

 who, under the name of Sensitivus, has written an essay, in 

 the Gardener's Magazine, (vol. i. p. 36.) upon the treatment 

 which gardeners out of place receive from nurserymen ; I am 

 induced to submit a few remarks upon the same subject, in 

 hope of correcting his sentiments a little, and of thereby ren- 

 dering him, and others so circumstanced, who think in the 

 same way he does, a little less uncomfortable. 



When a gardener leaves his situation, Sensitivus admits it 

 to be his best resource to apply to a nurseryman for work, 

 till he can either obtain for himself, or the nurseryman for 

 him, another regular gardener's place. This conviction is so 

 strong upon the minds of gardeners, as to occasion so many 

 applications to nurserymen for this description of temporary 

 employment, that, notwithstanding the assertion of Sensitivus, 

 " that most gardeners know that nurserymen have always 

 more work than workmen," there are many, who, by painful 

 experience, have proved how great this mistake is ; and who, 

 without first corresponding with the nurseryman they intended 

 to apply to, have made long journies to his residence, and 



