CHAPTER VIII 



SOME PRACTICAL HINTS 



rilHE reader has long since discovered 

 -*- that this little sketch has been written 

 by one whose horticultural knowledge is too 

 slight to give instruction to others, and 

 whose acquaintance with green things is 

 limited to a small list of those which are 

 of the simplest culture and hardiest growth. 

 Nevertheless, it will perhaps be helpful to 

 those who are satisfied to make this kind 

 of a garden, if I give here a little sum- 

 mary of the practical methods by which I 

 persuade my plants to grow. I apply the 

 same formula to everything, because my 

 plants are so nearly of the same general 

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