THE TREE DOCTOR 



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A well-meaning person went to the expense of buying and 

 planting Nasturtium seeds (see Photo 132 ;) they were the tall- 

 growing kind, but it does not look like it. now, on the twentieth 

 of August. What's the matter? Starved. An ignorant day- 

 laborer was hired to "make the flower-bed." He dug up the soil, 

 and the good people planted the seed and talked and dreamed of 



Photo 132, Starved Nasturtiums. 



the "loads of flowers" that they would gather from this "great 

 big bed !" Now they vow they will "never buy another package 

 from that seed firm !" 



Next spring, adopt the five o'clock rising. First morning, 

 take the top layer of soil off where the flower-bed is going to be 

 and lay it aside, then if you are down to gravel, clay or "hard- 



