Gardeners in Scotland

The gardeners in Scotland are, perhaps, less botanical and scientific than those in England; but they seem to have a more general knowledge of all the practical departments of gardening, and of agriculture and rural affairs generally. The cause is easily found in the circumstance of most of them uniting the duties of forester to those of gardener, and many of them adding those of farmer or land-steward. The same men, if in situations in England, would probably be limited to the practice of horticulture or of floriculture, and might carry these branches to a higher pitch than they ever could do in Scotland.