Let us see what "One in despair " puts forth to show that education is of little benefit to a gardener.

1. He served his apprenticeship at a nobleman's place, where there were twenty men employed.

2. Went to another large place, where he paid 3s. per week to the head-gardener, but learned nothing from him.

3. Was five years head-gardener, with three men under him, and left owing to a quarrel with one of the other servants.

4. Took a single-handed place for his own convenience, was discharged with other servants without warning or character, but from no fault of his own.

5. Having been some time out of work, went into the nurseries.

6. Got a recommendation to a good place, where he was five years, and where, but for his own fault, he might have been now.

7. Dropped down to a working gardener at 20s. per week.

Verdict on the above: This man sank in spite of his education, with more opportunities to rise than fall to the lot of one gardener out of a hundred.

Let the young gardener, who with much trouble has educated himself, gather from this statement that if ready to adapt himself to the natural incidences of his position, whether pleasant or otherwise, he will not want opportunities to rise. Down South.