The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-05-30

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/ The following appeared in one of the
1 daily papers;r = - - - s -.
who undssst.uds about gsrdenins- One wIt,ing TO
u.ke himself seneraiiy nszfa prefered - -.
/ A professional landscape gardener or
artist gentleman quite young in years
as well as in his profession, and some
what of an enthusiast, but who had
gone through ths host Thorough profes-
sional course, both of study and prac-
tice to 1t him for the business to which
ne had given great and mnch attaIltion, )
and to which he meant to dedicate his
life, called on the party publishing the
above advertisement, when the following
dialogue took place: -.-
sWell, sir, sssid The advertiser, whose
wife was present, "do you understand
the laying out of grounds 2TI
ITO say yes, Sir, feeling as I do how
much this question involves would be to
claim great deal, Ibut I have devoted
the best of my life to that business"
very well. L like your modesty.
But aside from the laying out of grounds
l want man who will make himself gen
orally usefnli .iO8 Z GT4t0 NQU4 I
40, SIR was the reply, Il will not
only make myself generally useful, but
will try to be particularly SO.
81 take it that this young man knows
allabout kitchen. gardening rs well as
the planting of trees ?"
Il have given attention, Madam, to
| culinary plants
"The last man we had was very
good man. He, was most kind TO the
carriage horses, and to every animal
about the place. We never had cen
occasion to think what vegetables were
to be for dinner He was q emark-
ably hand y man, too. He copd mend
the locks, and do almost my useful
thing about the house, but Re got mar
ried, and owing to family arrangements
was obliged to leave u.s.
"Oh, my dear Mada-i, said our young |
enthusiast; who was .ressed IN suit of /
home pun, mode b some of1the peas
antrv of the mcIntains where he had
been botanizin, where the 'blue noun
taias glow 1.-THE suns golden light"
and thinking how much his labors would
be aggregated by the rich for the services
which |. might render for their pleasure
and poiit my dear Madam, ! am not
a co chman, jockey, or a locksmith, l
ann landscape gardener
2 Oh! oh = said Mrs B., 'you are q
otanists ?''
Botany, Madam, is one of the
branches of science necessary to be
studied by any one preparing for the
business 1 have undertaken
.'Botany! botanyi Why I have studi
ed great deal of botany myself. Let
me show you some of my collection of
plants. Here is the so and So pre-
Stunning to give the scientific names for |
what she did not understand, but making
some mistakes in Latin which would do |
no very great credit to Linnaus.
- g Madam, ;, said he, have you the 1sp- |
tennis P;oriasis'' (for the benefit Of our
young readers we will say that .Septennis
Psoriasis is the Latin for the disease
known as the seven years itch.
mo, no, I haven't it now, but l had
it once ana hope to have It soon again
~ hope you may, Madam, and may
you enjoy it, and for not less than the
allotted. time. Itis, however, Madam,
very tiascult ofxpropa CATION. A lady
once speaking to the well known Sidney
Smith of this very thing, the Sepse'sn's
Psoriasis, who was bold enough to ask
her the question asked you, told him
aside from the great difficulty of its pro-
pagation she had had it, but that she
give it to the Archbishop of Canterbury
that it was quite dormant in the win
ter, but that it came out beautifully in
the Spring
"Oht' interposed the lady, if you
shouldshappen to have it before can
get it myself, don't forget me-
..Indeed, Madam, if I should happen
to-hase it there is not a ladyin land
| to whom would give III sooner than
yourself. as token of regard for your
courtesy, but more especially of your
appreciation and kn owledge OF a science
| to which attach SO much Importance.
and to which, by their iabors, some of
the most gifted and beautiful women
added new graceatc Beauty All
| So they partesisw But.walas! that fair
lady had no more idea OF his profession
| or its satire. than he had of the Flora of
| another world. And second time, alas,
that even now SO many persons of mere
wealth have no higher notion of what
should be landscape gardeners qualifi-
cations than If his business consisted
lsolely and simply in, the planting of cab
hages, the duties of the coaehman, and