(Continued from p. 5.) IN the introduction to the preceding portion of our tour, we strongly recommended to young gardeners to prepare themselves for filling the situation, not only of a head gardener, but also that of a general manager on a gentleman's estate. We see every day more and more occasion for giving this advice; and we are happy to find it followed up by two very intelligent correspondents in the present Number (p. 134. and p. 137.). Mere gardening, whether as a commercial pursuit by nurserymen and florists, or as a personal and professional service, never was, at any time within our recollection, at so low an ebb as it is at present. Nurserymen are becoming bankrupts all over the country, and there can be no doubt that many of them, whose names are not gazetted, have been obliged to compound with their creditors. So many master gardeners out of place, and journeymen in want of employment, we have never before seen about London: in the nurseries, which formerly used to be a sort of asylum for them, they cannot now find employment even at 12s. a week. That this state of depression will bo followed by a reaction, and that at no distant period, is to bo expected, because action and reaction are always reciprocal; but that either the nursery business, or the profession of a gentleman's gardener, will ever be again what it has been, appears to us clearly impossible.
