CHAPTER XXXVI 

 THE SEEDLINGS, OUTDOORS 



WHEN once our seeds are planted, it would seem as if we 

 should merely need to glance at the garden once a day, to 

 see if the little plants have appeared. But even the time of 

 waiting has its cares. 



In the first place, the weeds will sprout. Now a weed 

 has been called a plant in the wrong place, so that a vege- 



FIG. 146. Seedlings of lettuce. 



table in the flower garden, or a flower in the vegetable 

 garden, is a weed. But there are plenty of useless plants 

 which will appear in either place, and which ought to be 

 twitched out as soon as they are big enough to seize upon. 

 The difficulty sometimes is that until the lines of seedlings 



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