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water and shade. Take notice here to have 

 your seedling plants quite clear from weeds 

 when you set them out. Let them at least 

 begin all right. Don't trust the innocent 

 green faces of the seedling weeds that 

 sprinkle the surface of the pot earth, pretty 

 as they may look just now. Young chick- 

 weed and clover have a power of growing 

 up that is quite astonishing to unsuspicious 

 people. 



I remember, as I write, that some great 

 authority — Mr. Henderson, I think — says 

 it is a shame ever to have a visible weed in 

 your garden, — they should all be destroyed 

 before they can be seen. And " true for 

 ye !" — as some of the weed-pullers would 

 say. There never would be a weed seen in 

 my garden, if I had ten men at my disposal. 

 Or ten women. But some of us cannot 

 spend quite all our time in Fairyland. 



When clipping off the dead roses, as I 



have advised, look over those that are just 



opening, to see what evil-doers may be there. 



Some roscbug, founding a colony ; some 



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