^ bed! But if we give you a rich soil, 

 ^ you will give us, do I flatter you when 



I say you will give us the largest and most 

 gorgeous blooms of all the hybrid teas? You 

 ask for so very little and you gladly give us so 

 much. You enjoy having the soil kept stirred and 

 powdered— you are not greedy, Caroline— two 

 feedings a month are all you ask for. Tell me 

 how it is you can go so long without a drink? 



And now, I want to repeat again that I really 

 think it is essential that we should know and in- 

 telligently understand garden work, so that we 

 may know the right and wrong method of the 

 work. Learn to thoroughly understand, and to 

 know the right and wrong methods, by actually 

 working in your garden. Start boldly, go ahead 

 boldly after you have started. Make your mistakes 

 and enjoy laughing about them. How easily gar- 

 den mistakes can be remedied — with so little effort 

 except perhaps a little mental effort! 



So I say, if you wish your garden to be suc- 

 cessful, work in it, make your mistakes, find out 

 under just what conditions the flowers will grow 

 best in it for you. Don't be discouraged if you find 

 that you have planted pink geraniums and ma- 

 genta petunias with a "white blotch" together, as 



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