XVI 
Garden Work 
career will have their appetites whetted, as it were, for 
more study. Some may allow their early training to 
lapse, but I am sure others will be so stirred by their 
first experience that they will follow it up by a deeper 
study of the mysteries of plant life, and this will raise up 
a body of men such as the gardening profession has 
never yet known. Not that I wish to cast any slur upon 
the splendid men we have had and still have, men whose 
names will ever live in the gardening world, but one 
must admit that there is still a majority of gardeners who 
are, and always have been, indifferent to the welfare of 
tJneir profession as a whole. 
(C 626) 
