The Gardeners Monthly And Horticulturist 1887 Vol 29

Author : Thomas Meehan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330319062
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, Vol. 27 written by Thomas Meehan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, Vol. 27: Devoted to Horticulture, Arboriculture and Rural Affairs; 1885 One of our nurserymen recently complained to the writer, of those people who continually wrote to his firm for advice. "Please send me - , and at the same time tell me how to treat them," is a sample of numerous requests. The profit on the whole transaction might be but a dollar or two. Only for the request, the order would be turned over to the proper clerk, and the proprietor could turn his attention to profitable work. But a clerk cannot answer such a letter. The proprietor must do it himself if it is done at all. He is a little nettled at the demand on his time which really renders the order valueless; but he remembers the business maxim that civility always pays in the end, and with the mental wish that the old fellow had sent his query to the Editor of the Gardeners Monthly instead of imposing on him, he sits down to his half-hour task, and as the letter goes into the post box, blandly smiles as he thinks of the many golden pieces his sacrifice of all profit will next year bring. Next spring the well remembered handwriting comes. Eagerly the envelope is torn apart, but in dismay he reads: "Not one of those - came to anything. As I followed exactly your instructions it proves the - were good for nothing, so I shall expect you to make them good to me without cost." He was at a loss to know whether he lost more by civility than he would by letting the customer go on the just-as-he-like plan. We cannot tell him; but this we do know, from experience in these chapters, that it is almost useless to teach a man gardening by rule or note, when he has not common sense to go along with the instruction. Not long since gentleman wrote, "my gardener, to whom I showed your 'Seasonable Hints,' says what you say about planting trees has been the cause of his great failure last year. He had not the year before been very successful in the trees I purchased. He pressed the earth in very carefully about the roots, but fully one-third died. I bought a hundred extra-fine evergreens of a nurseryman, and paid an extra price for some that had been several times transplanted. They had roots like moss. I never saw such a mass of fibres. I gave him your magazine and showed him where you said, hammer the earth in as tightly about the roots as you would a post; unless the earth is packed in tightly so that every root can touch the soil, the root might as well not be there. He replied that it was, in his expression, 'tarnal nonsense, guess he knowed how to plant a tree.' But remembering his failure the year before, I insisted; but sure enough, over half died, and the balance lived but a sickly life through the whole summer." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.