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But he decides to ask some one who 

 knows about bulbs to help him in 

 choosing. 



Teddy is now cleaning up the 

 ground where he will plant his bulbs. 



He will begin with crocuses and 

 tulips. Those will give him an abund- 

 ance of flowers next spring with the 

 least work. 



With this introduction into the bulb 

 family his acquaintance will extend to 

 other members and he will soon know 

 how to make his friends comfortable. 



Have you ever thought how one 

 acquaintance among boys and girls 

 leads to other acquaintances? The 

 same is true in making acquaintances 

 with plants. 



Teddy is driving the center stake of 

 his circular bed for tulips. 



Teddy is raking off the small stones 

 and some weeds before beginning to 

 make his tulip bed. 



Some people say that this kind of 

 soil and that kind of soil is proper in 

 which to grow this kind or that kind 

 of plants. 



Teddy takes the only soil he can get 

 and will prepare it the best he knows 

 how. Alany boys and girls are in the 

 same circumstances. 



Learn this with }-our flower grow- 

 ing: If you cannot have what you 

 want most, learn to want what you 

 can get. 



Once upon a time a farmer cor- 

 rected his son for planting corn in 

 crooked rows. 



The son replied that he did not care. 

 The corn would grow straight if the 

 rows were crooked. 



When that boy became a man. he 

 did business in a higgledy-piggledy 



