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amount of knowledge which: takes long years and much practice to.attain, 
and after all much of it.is intuitive and, cannot be taught. . But a young 
‘gardener, when he. has’ time may. learn, something in this line. alse. 
«Where there is a will there is away!” He may visit a farmer's 
herd ;. and, while ;studying. the difference between a Hereford cand 
Short-horn may note the. peculiarities of each, and carry them An his 
mind. to compare them with. other cattle. When, once the distinctive 
‘features of any- particular breed_of cattle are, impressed on the memory, 
the educational part of, the enquiry. maybe. said to have commenced, 
‘and will never afterwards be forgotten, but progress by each subsequent 
examination. Young gardeners may give, young farmers adyice on 
many points as,to gardening, which, know, they, would be glad to 
receive ; and, on the other;hand, gardeners may most usefully spend.a 
‘few hours in each week in noticing and comparing. the qualities of live 
‘stock, so as in time to become acquainted with the different, points which : 
constitute perfection. |  aoitoallos 
A GABDENER AND FARMER. 
VISITS: TO “NURSERIES. a 60 
No..I.—MR, CANT'S, COLCHESTER, .¢ j.g0) ie 
‘ONE Sometimes meets with a testy old colonel or superannuated civilian, 
who, with heavy tiffins, late dinners, pale ale, and Madeira, has 
managed to ‘bring home with him’ from India a pretty considerable 
‘congested liver, which does not by any means tend to his amiability or 
bright views of things. He vents his grumbling and_his bile on the 
service which has treated him so badly, or the authorities at home, who 
have not seen his transcendant merits. You ask such a man about 
missionaries,  ‘‘ Missionaries, Sir, I never set my face on one the whole 
‘time Iwas in India—a parcel of humbugs, Sir. J saw a bungalow of 
one of them once, and a pretty snug box it was. The man himself 
was off somewhere. I suppose taking his pleasure up in the hills; and, 
as to converts, all a bundle of lies—not one of them in India.” Well 
now—some set this down as most irrational, and call the poor man all 
‘sorts of hard names; but what else can you expect? The, very last 
thing he would care to make enquiries about was missionary work, and 
hence he sees nothing. He does not suppose a missionary ought to live 
in a pig-stye; and the poor man, whom he supposed to be upon the hills, 
was probably at that time wearing out health and strength in arduous 
itinerating work amongst the heathen towns and villages, of his 
district. I often think of this when ‘one goes into a provincial town, 
Ask ‘a dozen persons who haye been to Colchester, to wit, what they 
think of its floricultural productions—never saw anything of the king 
One man has seen its old ruins, another has eaten its oysters, another 
has visited the large camp, but as to flowers do not believe they are grown 
there. One says,—I saw indeed one or two nurserymen’s windows, 
nothing ‘very particular ‘there, and think you would’ only waste your 
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