" Bearing in mind these counsels:
Make a wise selection of hardy plants. Grow only good sorts, and of
these choose what suit your soil and climate. Give them space and good
feeding. Disturb the roots as little as possible, and cut the flowers
constantly. Then they will be fine as well as fit.
Good-bye, Little Friend,
Yours, &c.
LETTER II.
"The tropics may have their delights; but they have not
turf, and the world without turf is a dreary desert. The
original Garden of Eden could not have had such turf as one
sees in England.
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"Woman always did, from the first, make a muss in a garden.
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"Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron
back, with a hinge in it."
_Pusley; or, My Summer in a Garden_.--C. D. WARNER.
DEAR LITTLE FRIEND,
Do you know the little book from which these sayings are quoted? It is
one you can laugh over by yourself, again and again. A very good
specimen of that curious, new-world kind of wit--American humour; and
also full of the truest sense of natural beauty and of gardening
delights.
Mr. Warner is not complimentary to woman's work in the garden, though
he displays all the graceful deference of his countrymen to the weaker
sex.
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