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of the day ; and their hours of rest, except what is necessary for sleep, 
should be devoted to mental improvement, rather than to cards, or 
other sedentary games of skill or chance. Music, for those who have 
a turn that way, is a pleasing and most rational amusement, and may 
be delightful to one’s immediate associates; but this talent must not 
make the possessor a wanderer from home. 
But the principal and most important objects of the young gardener’s 
attention must be the different branches of culmary, fruit, and fewer 
gardening, to which may be added arboriculture and landscape garden¬ 
ing. These should engross the study of his youth, the attention of his 
manhood, and the cares of his declining years ; but the sooner in life 
he becomes master of all these, the better chance he will have of being 
advanced to a situation where he will have full scope for the exercise 
of his early acquirements of knowledge, and at the same time meet that 
reward which former assiduity and attention may merit. 
There is still another paramount matter not yet alluded to, but 
which forms the chief excellence of a gardener’s and every other man’s 
character, whether old or young—we mean, propriety of conduct, 
moral worth, and faithfulness in the discharge of every social and pro¬ 
fessional duty. So necessary are these traits of character to a gardener, 
that his success in life depends even more on them than on the most 
shining professional attainments; and often we have seen the defects 
of the gardener merged in respect for the man. 
But, as there is no natural barrier which prevents the union of per¬ 
sonal worth and professional ability, and as they are often seen in most 
happy conjunction, we conclude these remarks by strongly recommend¬ 
ing to our young readers the absolute necessity of their endeavouring 
to afford, in their own cases, an exemplification of that happy union, 
which, while it reflects credit on the profession, renders honour and 
recompence to the deserving professor. 
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LETTER SEVENTEEN. 
Sir,—I ended my last communication with a few remarks on what 
are called picturesque forms. I have now to advert to the colours of 
objects which are more or less pleasing in landscape, and to the nature 
of surfaces, whether rough or smooth, and thereby pleasing or otherwise 
to the eye. 
