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may requii'e, supplying twigs or stakes for 

 them to depend upon, or, in some instances, 

 wire netting or something similar — as in the 

 case of sweet-peas — for them to climb over. 



Good flowers, it must be remembered, do 

 not grow in neglected beds. Cultivation alone 

 will bring out the best that there is in plants 

 of any sort. And cultivation means a little 

 more than the daily sprinkle of water over the 

 beds. It means a little more than weeding. 

 Still the work it embraces is neither arduous 

 nor exhausting and, if a little be done each day, 

 will scarcely occupy any time at all. It is pos- 

 sible, for instance, to keep in perfect state of 

 cultivation a garden of annuals fifty feet wide 

 and fifty feet deep by devoting twenty minutes 

 a day to the work it demands. 



WATERING 



Many amateurs fail because, after their gar- 

 den is well started, they water, as the florists 

 say, "injudiciously." It is difficult to under- 

 stand what is meant by the term, but not at 

 all difficult to interpret it by the light of some 

 unfortunate experience. In the first place, 

 some plants demand more water than others, 

 and this, of course, should be taken into con- 



