MAKING THE LITTLE FLOWER GARDEN Q 



ing-Glories. "Here," he tells me, "I keep the 

 diary of my garden." I look over his shoul- 

 der at the books he holds forth and find that 

 for many years he has jotted down with lov- 

 ing care therein all sorts of things every one 

 should know about his garden. Some of the 

 things I find written in these bulky notebooks 

 are much the same as the things the master of 

 Noman's garden begrudgingly dispensed when 

 I pressed him for information. How differ- 

 ently it is with the master of Everyman's gar- 

 den! Eagerly I begin to compare notes, first 

 turning to his trim little entries under 



SITES AND SOILS FOR THE GARDEN 



"They must be weed-free." We both agree 

 as to that. Weeds cannot be cut under and 

 allowed to hide their heads, ostrich-Uke. We 

 must not let the foohsh things take silly ad- 

 vantage of us that way. We must root them 

 out in earnest, and burn them. Moreover, if 

 the garden plot we have determined upon is 

 neighbor to a weedy field, we shall be called 

 upon to exercise some vigilance over-fence. It 

 is a poor neighbor who will not lend hand to 



