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By this I do not mean that inferior work should 

 be accepted from local men. There is no neces- 

 sity for that. If owners learn to know good 

 work, and set a high standard, they will receive 

 good service. In case of doubt about a man, 

 have the nearest landscape architect or profes- 

 sional arboriculturist examine him and his work. 



Finally, a word to landscape architects. Your 

 advice is worth nothing to your client unless it can 

 be carried out at a reasonable expense. It is to 

 your interest, as it is to your client's, to be able to 

 refer him to a skilful and reliable man, competent 

 to carry out the measures you recommend for the 

 care of his trees. You ought to use every effort 

 to get into touch with such men, and to help them 

 when you find good ones. Give them freely of 

 your special knowledge. Try to develop a corps 

 of arboricultural and horticultural workmen upon 

 whom you can depend as implicitly as the mem- 

 bers of your sister profession, architecture, de- 

 pend upon their carpenters and masons. 



