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taste and good judgment, avoid such mistakes of 

 arrangement both in the ordering of plants for 

 flower borders, and in the decoration of flowers in 

 rooms. A dinner-table should be an easy matter 

 for her to plan. Lightness of touch will enable 

 her to succeed in mixing graceful, soft foliage with 

 suitable flowers. She will accomplish this in less 

 time than the average man gardener. 



Week-end parties are a favoured form of enter- 

 taining, and often the lady of the house is busy in 

 London during the week, only arriving at her 

 country house just before her guests. It will give 

 her a pleasant sensation of ease if she has someone 

 at home to whom she can absolutely entrust the 

 decoration of her rooms and dinner-table. Then, 

 too, another important matter is the selection, 

 gathering, and packing up of suitable flowers to 

 send away. My experience has always been that 

 men gardeners do not study this sufficiently. 

 They gather beautiful carnations, pentstemon, 

 irises, or whatever their speciality may be, but 

 forget that suitable green or coloured foliage 

 must be mixed with them to show off the blossom. 

 Knowing the very great difficulties of arranging 

 flowers in glasses, a lady will be more careful 

 about this than a man. 



(3) Honesty and trustworthiness. 



The lady gardener is a gentlewoman, and, 



