THE GARDENER 



Most places that I know of are where gardeners 

 have made themselves valuable and created the 

 place. I have in mind at least two instances 

 where gardeners were employed at sixty dollars 

 per month and are now getting as high as one 

 hundred and fifty dollars per month; this all 

 happening inside of five years." 



The question of the gardener's worth in money 

 is surely to be considered as an important one 

 to both sides. A discussion of this matter has 

 lately taken place with a rather unusual freedom 

 of speech in the columns of one of our best horti- 

 cultural weeklies; and it may be of interest to 

 quote here from some of these arguments. One 

 writer, himself taking the words of a former Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury of the United States, be- 

 gins thus: "'In every profession which uses a 

 man's highest powers and lays rigid demand on 

 his ideahsm and courage it is always safe to as- 

 sume that up to a certain point these men can 

 be overworked and underpaid, because they are 

 much more concerned with doing their work well 

 than with being well paid for it. But when this 

 imposition begins to reduce them and their fami- 

 lies to poverty, they do not, as do workmen lower 

 in the scale, go on strikes. They quietly resign 



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