If nothing else accounts for it, ten to one there's a worm in the pot. 
Jobbing gardeners are sometimes neat, and if they leave their rubbish 
behind them, the hepaticas may turn up again. 
Known sorts before new sorts, if your list has Hmits. 
Leave a bit behind you — for conscience's sake — if it's only Poly- 
podium Vulgaris. 
Mischief shows in the leaves, but lies at the root. 
North borders are warmest in winter. 
Old women's window-plants have guardian angels. 
Pussy cats have nine lives and some pot-plants have more; but both 
do die of neglect. 
Quaint, gay, sweet, and good for nosegays, is good enough for my 
garden. 
Rubbish is rubbish when it lies about — compost when it's all of a 
heap — and food for flowers when it's dug in. 
Sow thick, and you'll have thin; but sow peas as thick as you please. 
Tree-leaves in the garden, and tea leaves in the parlor, are good for 
mulching. 
"Useful if ugly," as the toad said to the lily when he ate the grubs. 
Very little will keep Jack Frost out — before he gets in. 
Water your rose with a slop-pail when it's in bud, and you'll be asked 
the name of it when it's in flower. 
Xeranthemum, Rhodanthe, Helichrysum, white, yellow, purple and red. 
Grow us, cut us, tie us, and hang us with drooping head. 
Good Christians all, find a nook for us, for we bloom for the Church 
and the Dead. 
You may find more heart's-ease in your garden than grows in the 
pansy-bed. 
Zinnia elegans flore-pleno is a showy annual, and there's a colored 
picture in the catalogue; but — like many other portraits — it's a 
favorable Hkeness. 
— From "Mary^s Meadow," by Mrs. Ewing. 
Illinois Training Farm 
of the 
Women's Land Army of America 
Aim 
To ofer to the women of America an opportunity for patriotic service 
which is both timely and useful. 
To ofer to America the strength and courage of her women for the 
fight behind the lines. 
