The King was in despair about it , when a wise old man said to him : `` Your gardeners do not understand their business : but what can you expect of men whose fathers were cobblers and carpenters ? How should they have learned to cultivate your garden ? '' `` You are quite right , '' cried the King . `` Therefore , '' continued the old man , `` you should send for a gardener whose father and grandfather have been gardeners before him , and very soon your garden will be full of green grass and gay flowers , and you will enjoy its delicious fruit . '' So the King sent messengers to every town , village , and hamlet in his dominions , to look for a gardener whose forefathers had been gardeners also , and after forty days one was found . `` Come with us and be gardener to the King , '' they said to him . `` How can I go to the King , '' said the gardener , `` a poor wretch like me ? '' `` That is of no consequence , '' they answered . `` Here are new clothes for you and your family . '' `` But I owe money to several people . '' `` We will pay your debts , '' they said . So the gardener allowed himself to be persuaded , and went away with the messengers , taking his wife and his son with him ; and the King , delighted to have found a real gardener , entrusted him with the care of his garden . The man found no difficulty in making the royal garden produce flowers and fruit , and at the end of a year the park was not like the same place , and the King showered gifts upon his new servant . The gardener , as you have heard already , had a son , who was a very handsome young man , with most agreeable manners , and every day he carried the best fruit of the garden to the King , and all the prettiest flowers to his daughter . Now this princess was wonderfully pretty and was just sixteen years old , and the King was beginning to think it was time that she should be married . `` My dear child , '' said he , `` you are of an age to take a husband , therefore I am thinking of marrying you to the son of my prime minister . `` Father , '' replied the Princess , `` I will never marry the son of the minister . '' `` Why not ? '' asked the King . `` Because I love the gardener 's son , '' answered the Princess .
On hearing this the King was at first very angry , and then he wept and sighed , and declared that such a husband was not worthy XXXXX his daughter ; but the young Princess was not to be turned from her resolution to marry the gardener 's son .
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