THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



thin plants, a Brutus-like firmness to pull up the infant an- 

 nuals that their fellows may have enough to eat. 



Lack of Picking. — It is the seeding, not the flowering, that 

 exhausts a plant's vitality, and many flowers — sweet peas, 

 corn-flowers, pansies — ^will bloom continuously if kept picked 

 and not allowed to go to seed. 



These are a few of the rocks wheron one's gardening ad- 

 venture is most Uke to meet shipwreck, and to note dangers 

 beforehand is one of the surest ways of avoiding labor and 

 sorrow. 



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