CHAPTER XI 



Your Garden's Friends and 

 Foes 



A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we 

 turn her out of a garden. 



— J olinson. 



Your garden's friends and foes, — have you ever 

 thought about them as such? You go to a lot of 

 trouble to raise fine flowers and vegetables, and 

 then, if you are not on the lookout, before you know 

 it something has happened! Your rose leaves are 

 discovered full of holes, and your potato vines al- 

 most destroyed; your tomato plants are being 

 eaten up by the big, ugly '^tomato worm,'' while 

 your choicest flowers are dying from the inroads of 

 green or brown insects so tiny that at first you do 

 not notice them ; and strong plants of all kinds are 

 found cut off close to the ground. What further 

 proof do you need that your beloved garden has its 

 enemies ? 



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