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been. devoid of ornamentation. a richly diversified aspect. Our), conti-. 
nental neighbours have improved upon all our ‘plans for remoying and: 
replanting large trees, and more especially they have made, a careful: 
study of the requirements of trees, under the condition, and haye. 80. 
well provided for the demands of nature, that, whatever they doin the 
way of transplanting becomes a success.” a A 
EDUCATION OF GARDENERS. 
THE education of gardeners has been so prominently brought’ sei 
the public of late by your: contemporaries that I must ask youto ifind 
me room for my opinion on this important question in your periodical— 
a favour I feel you'will not refuse, after having very ably mooted the 
subject some time ago. In the first place, as: to the propriety of head 
gardeners. taking premiums of their young men for instruction, that, like 
all other questions’ of labour, will always be ‘regulated by the supply. 
If there is at any time a number of young men wishing to make gar- 
dening their profession, they will not object paying the requisite premium 
to some head gardener, to’ enable them to learn their business.» If, on 
the contrary, gardeners find the market) for assistants or apprentices 
restricted, they will be compelled to take-mem without paying’ fees ; for, 
it is obvious, having themselves a certain quantity of work'to get through 
requiring such men, they must have them, and in that case are:not:in 
a position to demand what they have-no power to enforce. | As. to-the 
rights of gardeners to take fees, that depends simply on the arrange+ 
ments they make with their employers as to this privilege. b I 
You have already shown ‘that the ‘prospects. of gardeners having ¢ a 
much wider range of objects to attam than ‘mere gardening is increasing 
every year—a fact which I affirm, and which indeed isthe: principal 
reason for my addressing you. ‘ But then-I wish also to impress on: the 
minds of your young readers that'a thorough practical knowledge -of 
horticulture forms the groundwork of a number of duties which they 
may hereafter be called upon to fulfil, more vespecially that! part of it 
which relates to the practical management of the sol -and:draining. 
So impressed am I with the value‘of the knowledge of garden manage- 
ment of crops as applicable to: field husbandry, that I feel certaim were 
young farmers to spend a couple of years in. some of the market gardens 
round London, to witness the effects of deep: trenching, manuring, and 
their rotation of crops, it would be equally as serviceable to them asa 
term at the agricultural colleges—perhaps more so, with. this exception 
that the market gardeners deal with one kind of manure only (horse- 
dung), and that their land is for the most) part of one doxeriptions se 
modified by local circumstances (the London clay). 
Young men wishing to make themselves gardeners, with the pros- 
pects of hereafter taking charge of landed property, should beak mn 

* Our readers will find the SL der noticed at Ripe sie at Page eo of our vo 
for 1858. ry 
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