BY WAY OF 



stinct telling it that its resemblance to the Onion 

 would deceive the gardener! Is anyone foolish 

 enough to believe that the weed knew just where 

 to locate itself, and had the ability to put itself 

 there? One can but laugh at such " scientific 

 statements," and yet it seems too bad to have 

 people humbugged so. 



A woman writes : " I don't care very much 

 about plants. I never did. But almost every- 

 body grows them, nowadays, and I'd like to have 

 a few for my parlor, so as to be in style. You 

 know the old saying that ' one might as well 

 be out of the world as out of fashion.' I wish 

 you'd tell me what to get, and how to take care 

 of it. I want something that will just about take 

 care of itself. I don't want anything I'll have 

 to bother with." 



My advice to this correspondent was, " Don't 

 try to grow plants.'^ 



The fact is, the person who doesn't grow them 

 out of love for them will never succeed with them, 

 therefore it would be well for such persons not to 

 attempt their culture. This for the plant's sake, 

 as well as their own. Plants call for something. 

 Plants ask for something more than a regular 



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