CHAPTER VL 



TRAINING FIRST AND SECOND TEARS. 



Training. If our directions thus far have 

 been clear to the apprehension of the reader, 

 and have been faithfully observed, we shall 

 have a good and durable foundation upon 

 which to build our superstructure. Unlike 

 many other superstructures, this one must be 

 built slowly ; as it were, one stone at a time. 

 The laws of vegetable growth are inexorable. 

 By no skill of ours can we alter them ; but by 

 studying their nature and operation, we may 

 gain as much knowledge as will enable us to 

 apply them to certain given cases in such a 

 manner as to produce their legitimate results 

 with great uniformity ; we may, by judiciously 

 cooperating with them, and affording the as- 

 certained requirements, enjoy these results in 

 their most perfect form. It is our purpose 

 now to state what these requirements are, so 



