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art, and may be summed up in the garden-lad's definition of 

 gardening, " A-doing of things at the right time " a maxim 

 instilled into his understanding, no doubt, by a past-master 

 of the craft, and which applies with double force in the case 

 of this handsome but short-lived section of plants. 



