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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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theyounger ones are often painfully checked or thwartedin their practical attempts, if not by the scientificaspirant, yet frequently by all others about them, fordamage to clothes, &c., all too well known to thosewho try to foster the simple tastes of the risinggeneration. At present there appears to be a further move incontemplation towards teaching the ordinary detailsol management of garden, poultry-yard, and thelighter matters of forestry or farming sometimescoming under a Ladys management in country lifeby a species of collegiate teaching, and it may be wellworth while to consider whether, not only as a matterof education generally, as well as from the limited viewof instruction on the special subject, all this mightnot, with a little encouragement, be much betterlearnt at home. From the time that a child can stand firmly enoughto use a light tool she may begin to gain knowledgeof gardening, and gradually (ind imperceptibly the February 14, 18S0.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 201
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Fig. 36.—nepenthes bicalcarata. (see i, 200.) 202 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (February 14, iS great problems of vegetable action, the depth suitablefor germination of seeds or for the growth of bulbs, theaction of light and moisture, the treatment ol theplants by pruning, &c.—subjects on which informationis acquired with tedium and difficulty by theoreticalinstruction in advanced youth, are fairly impressed,sufficiently for common garden purposes, on the youngheads which have been allowed to use their handsfrom childhood in the home garden. And who shall say that this is not scientific know-ledge ? The young folks may be quite unaware of it,but they are taking in by imitation the results of longyears of study and endless experiments, and even ifthey cannot tell in scientific terms the reasons ofthe success or failure of their work, they are gaininga mass of information solidly and truly based. Amongst the high-minded ladies of our owncountry there are many, we know, who lay the

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