GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
den. On seeing it in place, on the show table, I 
frankly confess I was quite ashamed of my effort, 
it looked so very modest: and you can imagine my 
great surprise when I discovered later that it was 
decorated with a coveted ribbon! 
There is one way, however, in which the mixed 
bouquet can be put together so as to look its best, 
and our florist-guest demonstrated it. On coming 
to, the close of his remarks he began picking up 
the flowers he had been using in his various ar- 
rangements with his right hand and placing in his 
left,—paying no attention whatever to what he 
took, nor even looking at what he was already hold- 
ing. Rose, daisy, jonquil, primrose, everything, 
just as he chanced to find it at hand, went together. 
But,—and here was the secret of the successful re- 
sult—he grasped them all at the extreme lower 
end of their stems, whether long or short, so that 
the bouquet on being completed had that beautiful 
irregular outline as well as the mixed color that 
Mother Nature herself offers us in the garden! So 
if you ever have to put a quantity of mixed flowers 
together, remember to do it this way. 
And now a last word about flower growing. 
Don’t you know that old adage, ending “try, try 
again?’’? When you think of the great Burbank, 
growing thousands upon thousands of a single kind 
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