. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 394 The Canadian Horticulturist. ITEMS. EOPLE who enjoy the happy luxury of working on the land in the open air, may well be contented with their lot as viewed from a standpoint of health and pure enjoyment, if they compare their condition with the large majority of those who are confined in rooms where the percentage of pure air is very moderate, and the muscular effort required to till the soil is so conducive to the enjoyment of food and rest, and the absence of bustle and anxiety so promotive of thoughtful
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 394 The Canadian Horticulturist. ITEMS. EOPLE who enjoy the happy luxury of working on the land in the open air, may well be contented with their lot as viewed from a standpoint of health and pure enjoyment, if they compare their condition with the large majority of those who are confined in rooms where the percentage of pure air is very moderate, and the muscular effort required to till the soil is so conducive to the enjoyment of food and rest, and the absence of bustle and anxiety so promotive of thoughtfulness and meditation, that to call it a luxury to work in the open air, is by no means a misnomer. Especially is this true when labor is connected with intelligence and a degree of management to prevent one's labor from degenerating into a slavish routine of mere manual effort. A man with a thinking head on his shoulders, must have some brain interest in what he is doing, or his physical plodding will wax irksome, and if he is of a poetic, sentimental, or a religious turn of mind, he must see something in his employment to respond to the yearnings of his peculiar temperament, and it is safe to say that in the management of a piece of land, if not too small, there is ample scope in coming in contact with Dame Nature and her many conferred favors, to interest the tastes and desires of the most unmovable, if he has any degree of apprec;ation whatever. Only do not let money-making be the ruling motive, desirable as that may be, but health, contentment, love of Nature, and a field for the enjoyment of a meditative spirit which is always a source of rich occupation of time, for " A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin ; Well, coming down to more practical or temporal details in one's experience, let me say to those who are trying to garden on a piece of flat rich land, that to get rid of the surplus water in the most profitable way, is much t
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