CHAPTER X 

 SOME MINOR SUGGESTIONS 



The author's earlier book, "The Seasons in a Flower 

 Garden," is more or less a collection of the simpler 

 "Do's," and "Don'ts," of garden-life, and conse- 

 quently it would not perhaps be very profitable to 

 add much of general advice on the care of plants for 

 the completion of this volume. A few additional in- 

 structions, however, especially for those who have not 

 had long experience, may be found of use at this 

 point. 



THE FIRST RULE 



After the garden has been planted avoid the notion 

 that thereafter only a little care will be required that 

 the gardener can go to the garden when all the rest of 

 the work on the place has been attended to. It should 

 be garden first or else no garden. No garden is better 

 than a poor, neglected, slovenly plot. Economizing on 

 the gardener means waste of plant-life and disappoint- 

 ments generally. 



By order, I do not mean that plants should look as 

 rigid as an inverted broomstick, which happens some- 



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