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ment credit ; that it will show him the treatment he ought to 

 experience, we will not attempt to deny. Unmanageable, for- 

 sooth ! These would-be sages are right for once; for well do 

 they know that the spread of information will ring the death- 

 knell to their despotic power. Let them do what they can to 

 stop the march of intellect; in spite of all their efforts the 

 period isoill come when they shall no longer shine resplendent 

 amid the gloom of ignorance with which they delight to be 

 surrounded ; when, a more extended education being placed 

 within the reach of the labouring population, their ideas shall 

 receive such an expansion as will lead them indignantly to 

 throw down the habit of the slave and the badge of the serf, 

 to array themselves in the majesty and dignity o( man ,- while, 

 at the same time, impossible though it seem to these narrow- 

 minded upholders of wrong, a mutual attachment shall be 

 formed between the employer and the employed, the former 

 being rendered more generous and humane, and the latter 

 more faithful and trustworthy. 1 am. Sir, yours, &c. 



SCIENTI^ ET JuSTITIiE AmATOR. 



Staffordshire, Bee. 21. 1832. 



Art. IV. &ome of the Disahilities tvhich enthral young Gardeners, 

 By Ephebicus Horticultor. 



Sir, 

 Any unprejudiced reader of your magazine may see, and 

 every under-gardener who knows what it is to act in that 

 capacity, must feel, the truth and justness of the remarks of 

 your very intelligent correspondent, " Scientise et Justitiae 

 Amator" (Vol. VIII. p. 641.), upon Mr. Mallet's advice 

 (Vol. VIII. p. 521.) to young gardeners. The true state of 

 the young aspirant of the spade, and the various disadvantages 

 under which he labours, standing as hinderances to his further 

 improvement, are subjects which ought to interest not a little 

 every employer of gardeners, every lover of horticulture, and 

 the editor of the Gardener's Magazine ; because it is evident 

 that each has his peculiar interests, or at least those of his 

 successor, in some degree at stake, in the attainments of the 

 rising generation of gardeners ; for, if the young gardener has 

 fewer advantages, he will have to contend with more pri- 

 vations ; and, of course, by thus having less opportunity of 

 gaining knowledge, he must retrograde in science, and a cor- 

 responding loss will hence accrue, first, to the employers 

 of gardeners, inasmuch as the gardeners, by decreasing in 

 knowledge, will decrease in power (for knowledge is power), 



