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Excerpt from A Guide to Floriculture: Containing Instructions to the Young Florist
In regard to gardeners in general, in this country, the major part are self-taught: a re?ection on this particular subject alone ought to encourage those possessing a natural taste for the science, that the art is attainable; this will better enable any to cultivate with a prospect of success. The Scotch gardeners are considered the best ln Europe; we seldom find an English gardener, on his arrival m this country, capable of conducting a green-house as it should be done. This leads a person. To suppose that those exotics are only employed in the drudgery of weeding in their na tive country, and when here wish to pass for bona fide gar deners; indeed, most of the experienced English gardeners find their knowledge of cultivation in this country deficient, as the difference of clime and soil varies materially to what they were accustomed to; but a scientific man will soon discover the difference and alter his mode, if not too old in his fixed principles or prejudice.
There are other sciences attached to gardening that makes the system more complete, which is understood but partially in practice, and not at all in theory, I allude to Botany, that part which relates to plants; it is a branch that ought to be studied, as it leads the mind to a thorough knowledge of the distinct species of plants, their properties, sexes, order, and indeed the whole system, The ground work of this science leads, the mind to a knowledge of ma ny important particulars in relation to ?owers. To know how to anatomize ?owers is particularly interesting to the mind of the cultivator, though not absolutely necessary.
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