OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



the beds were so big, and the little seedlings 

 so very small, that I did not realize how 

 large they would be by and by, and set 

 them much too near to each other. Also I 

 did not take into account their future 

 heights, and so planted short ones behind 

 tall ones, and had to move them afterwards 

 when they were too large to bear trans- 

 planting well, or else leave them in places 

 where they ought not to be. 



My garden has given me many an embar- 

 rassing surprise in the matter of growth. 

 One little rose slip which I plucked in some 

 one's garden as I passed by, without know- 

 ing what it was, and rooted in my cutting 

 pan, was planted in a space which allowed 

 for a shrub only three feet high and as 

 many in circumference, the size a good 

 Jacqueminot might grow to, perhaps. Im- 

 agine my feelings when the strenuous little 

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