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names of flowers you feel you can never get, 
and are disheartened at the number of things 
you are told to do that you scarcely know 
where to begin. But all the comfort and advice 
I am going to give is to tell you just to try. 
Try to have even one plant in flower in each 
of the four seasons ; then you will find in a 
little while you will be trying the next step, 
having one for every month. Try next to 
have one of each colour, red, blue, and yellow, 
in each of the summer months ; then another 
year try to do the same in autumn ancl spring 
too. Try to do one of the pieces of work you 
have read about—first to dig, then to weed, 
then to sow seeds and plant cuttings. 
Try each year to do something more, add 
to your garden little by little, and you will soon 
be surprised and pleased instead of being sad 
and disappointed. I have no fear of your 
success. It may encourage you to know that I 
began to work in my garden when I was so 
little I cannot now remember being without one. 
Every year my garden got improved, until by 
the time I was fifteen I had a great number of 
the flowers which have been described, and knew 
what work had to be done at each season of 
the year without having to look it up in a book. 
I feel sure you will find the same, that if you 
only try and begin, everything will come easily. 
