SOME PRACTICAL HINTS 



when one's own are not equal to the task, 

 are the two best aids I can think of in 

 achieving a garden. Nature and Robinson, 

 alone, will furnish all the instruction any 

 one can ask for. I should never have 

 dared to embark on my interesting ven- 

 tures with weeds had not Robinson the 

 very wisest of all the Wise Ones rec- 

 ommended them so respectfully by their 

 botanical names, and pointed out how 

 effective they could be in the right sur- 

 roundings. But in the light of his en- 

 couragement even the Indian paint-brush 

 a dangerous invader to admit is 

 allowed a very small patch on which to 

 display its vivid orange-coloured flowers. 



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