PLANTING 



ship in improvement-work, if possible. If you 

 proceed after a plan of your own on your side of 

 the fence, and he does the same on his side, there 

 may be a sad lack of harmony in the result. But 

 if you talk the matter over together the chances 

 are that you can formulate a plan that will be 

 entirely satisfactory to both parties, and result 

 in that harmony which is absolutely necessary to 

 effective work. Because, you see, both will be 

 working together toward a definite design, while 

 without such a partnership of interests each 

 would be working independently, and your ideas 

 of the fitness of things might be sadly at variance 

 with those of your neighbor. 



Never set your plants in rows. Nature never 

 does that, and she doesn't make any mistakes. If 

 you want an object-lesson in arrangement, go 

 into the fields and pastures, and along the road, 

 and note how she has arranged the shrubs she has 

 planted there. Here a group, there a group, in 

 a manner that seems to have had no plan back of 

 it, and yet I feel quite sure she planned out very 

 carefully every one of these clumps and combina- 

 tions. The closer you study Nature's methods 

 and pattern after them the nearer you wiU come 

 to success. 



Avoid formality as you would the plague if 



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