Chapter XX 



CONCLUSION 



IT is with a feeling in which there is something 

 of fear that I close these pages — fear that 

 many of those little things which become sec- 

 ond nature to the grower of plants and seem unim- 

 portant, but which sometimes are just the things that 

 the beginner wants to know about, may have been 

 inadvertently left out. In every operation described, 

 however, I have tried to mention all necessary de- 

 tails. I would urge the reader, nevertheless, to study 

 as thoroughly as possible all the garden problems 

 with which he will find himself confronted and to 

 this end recommend that he read several of the many 

 garden books which are now to be had. It must 

 be to his advantage to see even the same subjects 

 presented again from other points of view. The 

 more familiar he can make himself, both in theory 

 and in practice, with all the multitude of opera- 

 tions which modern gardening involves, the greater 

 success will he attain. 



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