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.
* * * * * "Woman always did, from the first, make a muss in a garden.
* * * * * "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.