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with but little trouble if you get it in the wrong 

 place, but a cement walk, once down, is down for 

 all time, unless you are willing to spend a good 

 deal of hard labor in its removal. 



Never do spasmodic work in the garden. The 

 unwise gardener neglects what needs doing until 

 so much has accumulated that he is forced to give 

 it attention, and then he hurries in his eff orts to 

 dispose of it, and the consequence is that much 

 of it is likely to be so poorly done that plants 

 suffer nearly as much from his hasty operations 

 as they did from neglect. Do whatever needs 

 doing in a systematic way, and keep ahead of 

 your work. Never be driven by it. 



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It is one of the most satisfactory laws of 

 Nature that we can have only what we work for 

 Too many seem to forget this, and think that 

 because a flower hasn't a market value, like corn 

 or wheat, it ought to grow without any atten- 

 tion on their part. Such persons do not under- 

 stand the real value of a flower, which is none 

 the less because it cannot be computed on the 

 basis of a dollars-and-cents calculation. 



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