CHAPTER XI 
Your Garden’s Friends and 
Foes 
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we 
turn her out of a garden. 
—Johnson.. 
Your garden’s friends and foes,—have you ever 
thought about them as such? You go to a lot of 
trouble to raise fine flowers and vegetables, and 
then, if you are not on the lookout, before you know 
it something has happened! Your rose leaves are 
discovered full of holes, and your potato vines al- 
most destroyed; your tomato plants are being 
eaten up by the big, ugly ‘‘tomato worm,’’ while 
your choicest flowers are dying from the inroads of 
green or brown insects so tiny that at first you do 
not notice them; and strong plants of all kinds are 
found cut off close to the ground. What further 
proof do you need that your beloved garden has its 
enemies? 
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