GARDENING FOB LITTLE GIRLS 



den. On seeing it in place, on the show table, I 

 frankly confess I was quite ashamed of my effort, 

 it looked so very modest : and you can imagine my 

 great surprise when I discovered later that it was 

 decorated with a coveted ribbon ! 



There is one way, however, in which the mixed 

 bouquet can be put together so as to look its best, 

 and our florist-guest demonstrated it. On coming 

 to the close of his remarks he began picking up 

 the flowers he had been using in his various ar- 

 rangements with his right hand and placing in his 

 left, — paying no attention whatever to what he 

 took, nor even looking at what he was already hold- 

 ing. Rose, daisy, jonquil, primrose, everything, 

 just as he chanced to find it at hand, went together. 

 But, — and here was the secret of the successful re- 

 sult — he grasped them all at the extreme lower 

 end of their stems, whether long or short, so that 

 the bouquet on being completed had that beautiful 

 irregular outline as well as the mixed color that 

 Mother Nature herself offers us in the garden ! So 

 if you ever have to put a quantity of mixed flowers 

 together, remember to do it this way. 



And now a last word about flower growing. 

 Don't you know that old adage, ending *Hry, try 

 again?" "When you think of the great Burbank, 

 growing thousands upon thousands of a single kind 



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