1 60 GA RDENING BY M YSELF. 



and phlox and balsams — that is very late — 

 do not always thrive ; but you can remove 

 quite a large plant from your reserve 

 ground, taking it with a good spadeful of 

 earth to a hole already dug in some blank 

 place in the borders, and with very little 

 disturbance to the roots. If the plants in 

 the reserve are kept thinned out and cared 

 for, so as to be strong and stout, this is easy. 

 Then the borders can be always full, and 

 one will not have too many petunias — 

 which happened to me this j'ear. I was 

 glad to let anything cover the ground 

 where grubs had been so busy. 



I have said so much about growing pa- 

 tience — perhaps you will think I need recom- 

 mend no other '' common things." Let joy 

 and admiration — gay tropicals that live only 

 in the sunshine — have it all to themselves. 

 But there will be shady corners in your 

 Fairyland ; and while patience makes some 

 of them lovely, let meekness make others 

 all sweet. 



Meekness among the flowers? — yes, you 



