THE TREE DOCTOR 



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Photo 158, In perfect Health. 



THE CAUSE OF FAILURE. 



The failure of millions of people in the United States to suc- 

 cessfully grow plants and flowers also trees arises, not from 

 a lack of interest or a willingness to spend money, but from la- 

 mentably defective education. They see trees, wild shrubs and 

 flowers growing freely and blooming in abundance; they know 

 that all these have tops and roots, and that in some way by 

 the action of the rain and sunshine, they produce the charming 

 results which they are permitted to behold. So lacking are these 

 people in education that they seem to imagine that all they have 

 to do is to stir the soil, drop in a few seeds and that nature will 

 do the rest. "Nature" may be fully depended on, and if there 

 happens to be a big, plump Burdock seed alongside of the Pansy 

 seed that you have planted, Nature lends her aid to both ; she is 

 "no respector of persons" or seeds but the Dock being the 

 easiest to germinate, the more vigorous and hardy, "gets the 



