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employer bore testimony to the superiority of their flavour. 

 In the summer months (the general season when good-fla- 

 voured pines are obtained from a wooden house), those culti- 

 vated in the former will surpass them in handsomeness of 

 growth, size, and flavour. 



It is with the utmost satisfaction that, from a long-continued 

 regular course of observation, I am able candidly to acknow- 

 ledge, that my previous objections to iron houses are entirely 

 surmounted, {experientia docet,) and I willingly avail myself of 

 this opportunity to state that practical gardeners, of all others, 

 ought to prove before they condemn. 



Dear Sir, I am, &c. 



Alexander Gordon. 



Court een Hall Jan. 23. 1827. 



Art. XVI. On the relative Duties of Gardeners and their 

 Employers. By G. P. R. 



Sir, 



As the professed object of your Magazine is to encourage 

 and promote horticulture, permit me to direct your attention 

 to a subject which is frequently the cause of much vexation 

 and inconvenience to both gentlemen and their gardeners, and 

 renders abortive many designs for improvement in the art. 



A gardener of industrious habits and good dispositions 

 engages himself to a gentleman at a rate of wages which he 

 feels to be low, but believes that,, as his abilities are developed, 

 his master (as an act of ordinary justice) will certainly raise 

 them. 



Settled in his situation, he is all assiduity in inventing and 

 acquiring every improvement in his power, and which he 

 devotes to his master's advantage. The master is well pleased 

 with the attention of his servant, and enjoys with satisfaction 

 the fruits of his skill, which are exhibited in the improved 

 appearance of his premises, and in the increasing products 

 of his culinary and flower gardens. 



But year after year passes on, and no substantial token of 

 the master's approbation is realised by the gardener ; although 

 it is probable, zeal in the service has induced him to take many 

 journeys to obtain information on improvements, and to pro- 

 cure new plants and cuttings from his friends ; and for which, 

 not even his coach-hire has been refunded, to say nothing of 



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