32 
CHAPTER YI. 
FLOWERS. 
It is a great thing to know what flowers are best 
to grow. 
A great many kinds may be very pretty and yet 
out of the question for gardens like our own, on 
account of peculiar treatment that they may re- 
quire, or of the long time required in their growth 
for flowering . A sad cause of grief the latter 
point is to a great many young gardeners. How 
well I remember poring by the hour over fine lists 
of seeds. Who would ever have thought that 
some of those seeds would produce forest trees, 
and that even many shrubs then sown would not 
have flowered yet ! 
If I were a young gardener just setting up 
again, I would avoid the seed-lists and their temp- 
tations, and make it quite a rule to grow things 
that I knew . Of course, now and then one might 
have some experimental seeds — but for my own 
positive wants I would have such flowers as I had 
