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themselves the punishment for crime. Resist, therefore, 
all temptation to do wrong in any shape that may come 
across the upright, even tenor of your wa,y. Keep your¬ 
selves respectable, and you will he respected accordingly. 
There are two things that a gardener should avoid: 
the taking too much freedom with his employers or 
fellow-servants, and expecting more than his wages. 
Whenever a gardener indulges in those poiuts it shows 
had taste and low breeding. A low, ignorant man 
(I hope there are few such gardeners), if he receives 
any civility from his superior, immediately expects 
from him favours of a pecuniary kind. He thinks his 
superior ought to he a friend to him ; perhaps will 
ask him to lend money; get him a better place; or, at 
least, advance his wages. These two points—familiarity 
and cupidity—are rocks on which many a gardener 
has split; lost his place and character, and hereafter 
became a railer against gardening, its patrons, and 
the world in general; in fact, a discontented, unhappy 
man, a had husband, a careless father, and a worse 
than useless member of society, and a disgrace to his 
class. Beware, then, of familiarity. A well-informed 
man never obtrudes his affairs on others, neither is 
he inquisitive or impertinently curious in prying into 
the circumstances of others. Let self-respect guide him 
in his behaviour to both superiors, equals, and in¬ 
feriors. The same principle will guide him in asking 
for or receiving favours. The wisest of men said, “ He 
that hateth gifts shall live.” How difficult to practice is 
this self-denial. Let self-respect rule, and the difficulty 
vanishes. Let every gardener ask himself these ques¬ 
tions:—Why should I receive this gift, or that favour, 
from this man, or that man? Will he not expect 
something more valuable in return? If this denying 
spirit was more acted upon it would check gross self¬ 
ishness. Keep up mutual respect, soften the temper, 
and promote true friendship. A selfish man is a sort 
of terror to his acquaintances; they fear to be even 
civil to him, expecting, if they were so, that he would 
ask them for favours which they must refuse; and by 
so doing, subject themselves to ill-natured comments, 
and, perhaps, abusive language. I say, therefore, to 
every gardener,—Be content with your wages; live 
within your means ; and be above receiving undeserved 
favours from any man, eithsr gentle or simple. 
There are, in every class of workmen, different capa¬ 
cities, or, in other words, one man is more clever than 
another. It is so in gardening. One man has ability to 
manage a great place, and another can manage a small 
one. Both are respectable in regard to moral character, 
and in that respect equal. But he who manages the 
small place would be very foolish to expect the same 
wages because he is equally steady, sober, and in¬ 
dustrious; nay, if equally clever in bis business, 
he would be to blame if he was not contented with what 
his employer was willing or could afford to give 
him. My advice would be, in such a case, if you do 
not feel satisfied with your situation, which you have 
agreed to manage for so much, tell you employer, ia a 
respectful manner, the cause, and leave it, and try for a 
better. But, beware; this is a dangerous experiment. 
There are so many gardeners out of place, and so few 
vacant, that you might be months, nay, years, before 
you get another. “ Better bear the ills we have than fly 
to others we know not of.” It is a wise dispensation of 
Providence, that there are men of varied ability to fill 
up the wants of every class of society. I have known 
many honest, simple-minded gardeners filling single- 
handed places with great credit to themselves and 
satisfaction to their employers, and quite as happy and 
contented with their twenty shillings per week as their 
more fortunate brethren were with the eighty or one 
hundred pounds a year. I say, therefore, again, let 
every gardener be content in that state of life it has 
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pleased Divine Providence to place him in ; do his duty 
manfully; and so conduct himself as to deserve the high 
character, as a man and a gardener, society has in 
general awarded to his class. And now, my friends, I 
heartily wish you every success and comfort, and shall 
always be glad to do you any service in my power. 
T. Appleby. 
ROUTINE WORK FOR AUGUST. 
The month of August being not unusually a dry, 
sunny one, a new order of things commences ; all crop¬ 
ping now undertaken has for its object the welfare of 
another year; even the most of the things planted are 
not expected to become useful until then, except such 
as are intended for autumn purposes, as Lettuces, 
Early Cape, and some other Brocolis. 
At the same time, much has to be done to render the 
present and future seasons abundantly supplied with 
vegetables and other products. A long period of dry 
weather is much against this, but being occasionally 
relieved by thunder-storms and the like, it would be 
well to take advantage of any change likely to be 
attended with benefit that way, and as late crops are 
often in as much request as early ones, we ought to 
provide for such by all the contrivances that can be 
adopted. 
Eotatoes in a young, or half-grown state, are by some 
regarded as a great luxury, and many dishes of retarded 
Potatoes have, no doubt, been vended for new ones. Our 
present chapter is intended to convey some hints how 
such retarding is accomplished, but giving, at the same 
time, some account of the other routine work which this 
period calls into requisition. 
Though a crop of Carrots sown on the 1st of June 
may differ but little in October from those sown two 
months before, such is not the case with the various 
crops that require sowing in August, for there is a criti¬ 
cal time for everything at this period, which the most 
experienced amongst us, now and then, get wrong in; 
for be it remarked, that the various crops of the Cabbage 
tribe are intended to flower naturally in the spring, and 
sometimes do when they have been sown too early ! 
In fact, I may say they always do so, that we ought to 
time the sowing so as to have the best possible vegetable 
without its running to seed. This can only be accom¬ 
plished by sowing at the right time. The same may be 
said of the Cauliflower, another of the Cabbage family. 
Turnips, though they may be sown at various times 
with a fair share of success, cannot well be sown later 
than this month; only, as the crop is intended for 
autumn and winter use, it ought not to be placed on the 
same footing as those which have an important office to 
perform in next year’s cropping. 
Celery. —This will only require earthing up as it 
advances in growth ; the mode of doing this at once 
is scarcely applicable in all cases, and in very dry wea¬ 
ther it would be prudent to run down a little additional 
earth round the stems, and over the roots of all the 
crops of celery, merely to keep out the drought. The 
earlier crops, as those advancing fast into use, will now 
want earthing up for good, taking care, at all times, not 
to do it in such a manner as to bury the hearts or inner 
leaves. Dry weather is best for this purpose, and fine 
pulverised earth ought only to be used. A good soaking 
with manure-water at the root, before doing so, will be 
of great service to the plant. 
Cabbages. —This important crop, on which the cook 
reckons from the 1st of January to the last day of 
December, ought to be very carefully attended to at this 
season; and although, in the north of England, and 
late, cold situations, crops may be sown the last week in 
July, with a fair chance of their doing well, still it is 
