very hot and dry it almost disappears, to sprout again with 

 the first rains. The seeds must be sown in early autumn, when 

 the weather is cool. The seedlings should be planted out just 

 as soon as they are big enough to handle : they make a long 

 tap root and will not stand transplanting later. People who try 

 to stock their gardens free of charge from veld and roadside 

 find in them a strong inducement to bring out their trowels ; 

 they dig and dig into the hard ground, the delicate lacey leaves 

 are all champed up in the process, and eventually the long tap 

 root emerges mostly cut and broken. But the plants are taken 

 home and planted, and just so much more beauty dies at the 

 hand of man. 



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