200 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAE ROUND 



plants carefully. Berry bushes and fruit 

 trees should have a couple of June sprayings. 

 But even the insect enemies of plants are not 

 more damaging than weeds when allowed to 

 grow and choke the gardens. By beginning 

 the weeding early, and by consistently keeping 

 it up, the growing plants will have a fair fight- 

 ing chance to reach unstunted maturity. By 

 this day-by-day weeding the labor attendant 

 on keeping the flower beds and vegetable rows 

 in condition will be greatly lessened and the 

 pleasure in gardening intensified. The neat- 

 ness of the garden which has a privet hedge 

 may be also enhanced by trimming the hedge 

 at this time. 



JULY 



Now the gardens of our happy anticipations 

 are unfolding their myriad beauties. We 

 look around the garden plot with satisfaction. 

 Even though here and there we find something 

 disappointing, it should only inspire us to con- 

 tinued effort if our enthusiasm is from the 

 heart. Gardens come and go in one sense, but 

 in another and in a truer sense they are ours 

 forever. June and her Roses, yesterday's 



