LITTLE GARDENS 



marks are not In order — the starlings nest and 

 whistle In the vines and under the cornices. Add 

 to the garden population, if you can, butterflies, 

 moths and bees, and be kind to your little plow- 

 man, the earthworm, for without his burrowing 

 and loosening of the soil It would pack like clay, 

 and you would find it hard to grow so much as 

 weeds. The amount of earth lifted In a single 

 yard by these unseen helpers Is, quite likely, a 

 ton in a summer, and may be much more. 



In transplanting wild flowers from their 

 haunts to the home grounds, note the locality in 

 which you find them, for you must afford to them 

 a congenial habitat. Several kinds of ferns, as 

 well as the glossy pipslssewa and wintergreen, 

 will desire a woody shade, saxifrage will seek for 

 niches in rocks, and butter-and-eggs requires the 

 sun; the pitcher-plant prefers the bog, the camo- 

 mile a sandy roadside; the ghost-flower, or 

 corpse-plant, or Indian-pipe, as it is variously 

 called, wants footing In old leaves, moss and 

 roots, while the arrowhead must have water. It 

 is impossible to collect every sort of wild flower 

 into the city garden, because It Is impossible in 

 such a space to afford all the conditions necessary 

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