. The little garden. e, while with me, who look at it and consider it withconstancy and tenderness, it sickens and dies. The word pruning can scarcely be applied to the cutting offlowers. Yet so truly, if we cut judiciously in our borders, do weprune as well as cut, that a word here must be said. Think, asyou cut one or two stalks of yomr delphiniums in full bloom, ofthe appearance of what you leave. Consider, as you take adozen fine daisies from yom: plant or two of Shasta daisies, thegood you may do to the look of that plant as you cut. Take thosethat droop too much, those whose stems have b
. The little garden. e, while with me, who look at it and consider it withconstancy and tenderness, it sickens and dies. The word pruning can scarcely be applied to the cutting offlowers. Yet so truly, if we cut judiciously in our borders, do weprune as well as cut, that a word here must be said. Think, asyou cut one or two stalks of yomr delphiniums in full bloom, ofthe appearance of what you leave. Consider, as you take adozen fine daisies from yom: plant or two of Shasta daisies, thegood you may do to the look of that plant as you cut. Take thosethat droop too much, those whose stems have been broken nearthe root by wind or rain. Thin a part of the plant where bloommay be too thick. This type of cutting becomes pruning, notfor the health, the vigorous life of the plant, or for its futiure yieldof flowers, as in the case of the flowering shrub, but for that otherharvest, the harvest of immediate, of instant beauty, which weall desire, and which a careful flower-gatherer will always pro-duce as he
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