GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
Here indeed ‘‘Eternal vigilance is the price of 
liberty.’’ If you would be free and escape such 
Tavages, you can not wait until your foes are full- 
fledged and hard at work, because usually consid- 
erable damage has then been done. Instead, you 
should learn at the time you begin gardening all 
about the many difficulties you have to contend 
with, including the various things that prey upon 
your plants. 
When you plant seed, for instance, and it fails 
to come up, you are apt to blame either the dealer 
or the weather man. Just as likely as not, though, 
some insect had attacked the seed before it was 
planted, or else the grubs got busy and enjoyed a 
full meal. These pests, with their various relations, 
are the most difficult of all to control, but pois- 
oned bait (freshly cut clover that has been sprayed 
with Paris green,) scattered on the ground where 
cut worms come out at night to feed, will destroy 
many of them. When your plants have begun to 
grow, however, and you find them being nipped 
off close to the ground, dig close to the stem and 
you will probably bring to light a cut worm curled 
up in his favorite position, and you can end him 
then and there from doing further damage. The 
wire worm, on the contrary, works entirely below 
the surface, and when you spade up a long, slender, 
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