Phrenology for Gardeners and tlteir Patrons. 



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certain extent, to guard against the errors to which, by their 

 particular variety of constitution, they are destined to be the 

 most prone. When blamed for anything by their masters, they 

 will be the more likely to acknowledge their error and amend, 

 when they find that the fault was one which, from their con- 

 stitutional tendency, they were very likely to commit ; there- 

 fore, not only teach them how to choose workmen of different 

 kinds, but how to manage them. Men and women of no educa- 

 tion, or without that substitute for it, the cultivation which is 

 given by constant intercourse with educated people, must ne- 

 cessarily be the slaves of their temperament ; and, therefore, a 

 head gardener may tell pretty nearly what he has to expect 

 from a garden labourer as soon as he sees him. He will foresee 

 his faults and virtues, and shape his treatment to him ac- 

 cordingly. 



Gardeners out of place are not likely often to have a choice 

 of situations and of masters ; but sometimes they have ; and it 

 must be useful to them to know that, all other circumstances, 

 such as duty, wages, prospects, &c., alike, the lord, or the lady, 

 with a broad full chest, broad erect forehead, and not much ex- 

 ceeding the middle size (^fig- 129.), will naturally be the most 



kind and generous 

 to them, provided 

 the servant does 

 his duty. In such 

 a case as I am 

 contemplating, an 

 intelligent garden- 

 er would not wil- 

 lingly choose to 

 ; live with a mas- 

 Her having narrow 

 shoulders and a 

 contracted chest 

 {Jig. 130.), or a 

 defective facial angle {fig- 131.) instead of the angle of intelli- 

 gence {fig. 132.), though the inestimable blessing of education, 

 and the intercourse of high and polished society, neutralise or 

 counteract the former to such a degree as to put its possessor 

 almost on a footing with the man of native strength of mind. 



But if this kind of knowledge is of importance to a gardener 

 in the choice of an employer or of labourers, it is of still greater 

 importance to him in the choice of a wife. Nothing good is to 

 be expected from an uneducated woman, unless she has an ample 

 chest and attenuated extremities. It is true, personal attraction 

 is but a small item of what makes up the sum of happiness, 

 either in the married or the single state ; but there can hardly 



Fig. 129. Broad Chest, and broad 

 Forehead. 



Fig. 130. Narrow and 

 contracted Chest, and 

 narrow Forehead. 



