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anything about your plants puzzles you, use your 

 eyes and your intelligence, and endeavor to find 

 out the " whys and wherefores " for yourself. 

 You will enjoy doing this when you once get 

 into the habit of it. Information that comes to 

 us through our own efforts is always appreciated 

 much more than that which comes to us second- 

 hand. Make a practice of personal investiga- 

 tion in order to get at a solution of the problems 

 that will constantly confront you in gardening 

 operations. 



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In answer to another correspondent who asked 

 me to recommend some thoroughly reliable fer- 

 tilizer, I advised " old cow-manure." Back came 

 a letter, saying I had neglected to state how old 

 the cow ought to be! 



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But the funny things are not all said by our 

 correspondents. I lately came across an article 

 credited to a leading English gardening maga- 

 zine in which the statement was made that a cer- 

 tain kind of weed closely resembling the Onion 

 often located itself in the Onion-bed in order to 

 escape the vigilance of the weed-puller, its in- 



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