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 Advice for Lackland Pomologists and common people

I do not know that the Horticulturists proper are the best advisers of a man who wishes—as so many do in these times—to establish his little home in the country, and to make it charming with fruits and flowers, and all manner of green things. I think that the professional tastes or successes of one devoted to Horticulture might lead him into a great many extravagances of suggestion, in the entertainment of which, the plain country liver making lamentable failures would lose courage and faith. The Pomologists may indeed say that there is no reason to make failure if their suggestions are followed to the letter, and the proper amount of care bestowed. This may be very true; but they do not enough consider that nine out of ten who love the country, and its delights of garden

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