Part 25

Don’t be too greatly cast down by failures; they have their uses. One failure, if it sets you to studying out the cause and remedy, is worth a dozen haphazard successes. We grow plants with even success for some time, then, without any recognised change in the treatment, we meet with failure. We look for the reason, and our education is begun. When we have found the cause of failure, we have made a long step forward.

Don’t fail to take some good floral magazines, they are helpful in many ways, and keep you in touch with what other workers are doing.

Don’t try to work in unsuitable clothing. Easy, broad, solid shoes—not any old run-down pair—should be considered as essential as a spade, or rake, and skirts that clear the instep, and hang comfortably. Waists with easy arm-holes and collar will enable one to work with a degree of comfort that means the accomplishment of an amount of work in a morning quite impossible were one less comfortably clad. Skirts of blue denim, made Princess style, and ankle length, with comfortable shirt-waists—denim for cool days, calico for warm—make a thoroughly comfortable outfit.

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Alphabetical Index

=Abobra viridiflora=, fancy gourd, 96.

=Abutilons=, 63, 64, 92. Diversity of form and colour of New California, 64. Time for flowering, 63.

=Achimenes=, 60. Cuttings of, how to root, 60.

=Aconite=, Winter, 191.

=Adverse criticism=, hints about, 254.

=Advice=, hints about, 253.

=Adlumia= (Mountain Fringe, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine), 46, 92, 129. Appropriate for use at funerals, 129. Delightful grown on north side of house, 129. Gathering seed from, 46. Sowing seeds and planting, 129.

=Ageratum=, Cope’s Favourite, 119. Tom Thumb, 16.

=Ageratums=, 16, 34, 35, 46, 81, 88, 91, 92, 94, 96, 101, 119, 121. Dwarf variety admirably adapted for carpet bedding, 119. How to sow, 35. Indispensable for edgings, window-boxes and vases, 101. Little Dorrit and Swanley Blue, 102. Princess Caroline, 102. Season for sowing, 102. Should be clipped frequently, 47. Tom Thumb, useful for edgings, 101.

=Air-tight covers=, should never be used to protect plants, 205.

=Alba plena Narcissi=, 191.

=Alba superbissima Hyacinth=, 192.

=Allegheny Vine=, 129.

=Allemannia Cannas=, 15.

=Alliums=, care and treatment of, 194.

=Altheas=, 201, 202, 206.

=Alyssum=. See Sweet Alyssum.

=Amaryllis=, 75, 155, 162–165. Evergreen, 162. General treatment of, same as for Crinums, 162. Johnsonii, 163.

=American Beauty Rose=, 178.

=Ammonia=, a stimulant for flowers, 25.

=Ampelopsis=, 128, 207.

=Anchusa capensis=, 119.

=Anemones=, 192, 193. Treatment and raising of, 193.