April  30,  1903. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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V  HAVE  read  with  much  interest 
pithy  remarks  on  the  above 
subject  which  appeared  ou 
page  837  from  the  peu  of  Mr 
J-  Botle}’.  I  must  cougratulate 
the  writer  upou  the  mauuer  iu 
which  he  seems  to  have  grasped 
the  maiu  points  of  a  decidedly  compli¬ 
cated  matter,  and  upon  the  clearness 
with  which  he  has  given  expression  to  hi.s 
ideas. 
“  The  land  cryeth  for  the  tiller,  and  there  is 
yet  time  to  save  it  from  ruin.”  How  is  it  to 
be  done  ?  asks  IMr.  Botley.  Ah  !  a  pertinent 
question  indeed,  and  one  which  at  the  present 
time  is  engaging  the  serious  attention  of  many 
deep  thinkers  and  active  workers,  who  clearly 
see  the  evils  of  the  present  artificial  system  of 
living,  which  have  been  brought  about  by 
mistakes  of  the  past.  How  is  it  to  be  done? 
Well,  it  will  certainly  not  be  done  by  a  single 
master  stroke.  The  workers  have  been  drawn 
from  the  laud  gradually  ;  their  return  will  be 
gradual,  too,  under  the  influence  of  improved 
conditions. 
One  mistake  of  the  past  has  been  that 
workers  have  been  tempted  to  the  towns  during 
times  of  prosperity,  by  high  wages.  The 
conditions  of  town  life  have  brought  about 
deterioration  iu  the  next  generation  if  not  iu 
the  first ;  and  then  when  trade  depression 
has  come,  the  weaklings  have  been  cast  aside, 
human  wrecks  indeed,  not  wanted  in  the  towns, 
and  of  but  little  use  in  the  country.  I  know 
something  of  life  in  large  towns,  and  I  am 
fully  convinced  that  many  labourers  iu  the 
country  are  as  well  off  as  labourers  in  towns 
'  when  everything  is  taken  into  consideration, 
j  No  one  can  blame  any  young  man  for  trying  to 
better  bis  position  ;  indeed,  that  should  be  the 
laudable  ambition  of  everyone.  But  it  is 
always  wise  to  make  sure  that  what  appear.s  to 
DICKSONS 
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