He who owns a gardening spade,
Should be able to dig the depth of its blade.
He who owns a gardening hoe,
Must be sure how he means his strokes to go.
But he who owns a gardening fork,
May make it do all the other tools' work.
Though to shift, or to pot, or annex what you can,
A trowel's the tool for child, woman, or man.
'Twas a bird that sits in the medlar-tree,
Who sang these gardening saws to me.
THE LITTLE GARDENER'S ALPHABET OF PROVERBS.
AUTUMN-SOWN annuals flower soonest and strongest.
What you sow in the spring, sow often and thin.
BULBS bought early are best chosen.
If you wish your tulips to wake up gay,
They must all be in bed by Lord Mayor's Day.
"Cut my leaves this year, and you won't cut my flowers next
year," said the Daffodil to Tabitha Tidy.
CUT a rose for your neighbour, and it will tell two buds to blossom
for you.
DON'T let me forget to pray for travellers when I thank Heaven I'm
content to stay in my own garden. It is furnished from the ends of the
earth.
ENOUGH comes out of anybody's old garden in autumn, to stock a new one
for somebody else. But you want sympathy on one side and sense on the
other, and they are rarer than most perennials.
FLOWERS are like gentlemen--"Best everywhere.
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