CuHaPpTerR IV 
HOW TO SUCCEED WITH FLOWERS 
To grow flowers successfully one thing, perhaps 
above all others, is needed. This is plain, ordinary 
gumption. 
It is all very well to say that flowers will grow 
for those who love them; that so and so has only 
to put a stick in the ground and it will blossom, 
and that sort of chatter. One might as well assert 
that good bread, cake and preserves are products 
of affection rather than of skill. As in everything 
else, there is a certain knack in growing flowers. 
This knack comes unconsciously to some, being 
bred in the bone. Others, who are the great 
majority, have to acquire it. Usually the process 
of learning is a slow one, not because it need be 
but because of the wrong notion that the heart 
is the guide of guides. 
Far from it; the head it is that leads to success 
in the garden. The hands are the chief aids, and 
once in a while the feet are called upon to do 
more than walking. WHleart, in the sense of senti- 
ment, has been known to be absent altogether. 
But it ought to be there always, only properly 
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