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these offices.” Now this certainly looks pleasant in theory. 
Is there any good reason why we may not, at least in part, re¬ 
duce it to practice ? The perfect system of manufactories we 
may not have. Weather, soils, and other things prevent, but 
system sufficient to accomplish much greater results with far 
less effort, we surely can and ought to have. 
In the large nurseries about Kochester, I have noticed that 
they used labor far more lavishly than we do. There is, about 
all they do, an amount of patient pains-taking and thorough¬ 
ness that surprised me. We cannot doubt but that this is a 
large element of success, and that as such it pays. Of course 
it would pay us as well, not only in dollars and cents, but in 
the stimulation and encouragement of success instead of fail¬ 
ure. 
- Through want of this thorough pains-taking we suffer great 
loss. Take, for instanee, any block of apple trees in any nur¬ 
sery. We find at least ten, and in many instances, twenty or 
forty per cent, of vacant places. Every vacancy is a positive 
loss of ten or fifteen cents, and the aggregate is large ; quite 
too much to lose by neglect or indifference. 
I have sometimes thought it would be better for each to 
take two or three articles and make specialties of them, thus 
securing the thoroughness and close attention so necessary to 
the best results. Certain it is, to my mind, that he who un¬ 
dertakes anything without this thoroughness, makes only slow 
and laborious progress. With it, we are masters of our busi¬ 
ness ; without it, we are slaves. The necessary details will sug¬ 
gest themselves to each of us. Now let us decide the ques¬ 
tion, shall they be brain pictures, or paper sketches only, or 
will we put them in practice. 
By our works and teachings, we have done something to 
turn public sentiment into the right tree-planting channels, 
but by example have we done what we might in that direc¬ 
tion? Merchants and tradesmen have their show windows 
filled with beautiful workmanship, to stimulate and direct pub¬ 
lic taste. Where are our show windows ? Where are our 
grounds, laid out in an artistic manner and planted with trees, 
