FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



plants live best together; she must be willing 

 to take up her borders and make them over 

 every three or four years; she must think 

 ahead and plan one year for the next; she 

 should also have patience and be willing to 

 endeavor next year to succeed with that 

 which has been a failure this year; she must 

 also be a person of much courage, because 

 there will be years when the rose bugs, the 

 black beetle and the white grub will appear 

 in swarms and do their worst; when the rust 

 will destroy the hollyhocks, mildew whiten 

 her choice plants, and drought finish almost 

 everything else. There will come times when 

 she will declare that she will plough up the 

 whole garden and plant potatoes and go off 

 and spend the summer in Europe; but, on the 

 other hand, there will be years when her sum- 

 mer will be one of joy, for her peonies and 

 iris will be magnificent, the many-shaded 

 larkspur towering and luxuriant, the rose 

 bugs absent in some distant state, and her 

 song will be one of continual triumph. 



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