GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote James Anderson of Scotland (a renowned agriculturist, economist, and thinker) and asked him to find a Scottish gardener who would work and live at Mount Vernon.  “I would prefer a single man to a married one,” GW wrote, “but shall not object to the latter if he has no children, or no more than one, or at most two . . . The man ought to be a good Kitchen and Nursery Gardener; to have some knowledge of a Green & hot house, and how to raise things in hot beds.”  This gardener would replace John Christian Ehlers whose contract ended on 10 Oct. 1797.