Excerpt from Gardens Shown to the Children
Gardening is a good game, whether you play it in fun or in earnest; whether you plant things at haphazard to see what will happen, or go about it with knowledge and intention. Sooner or later the haphazard way will be given up, for, as with everything that interests you, you want if you are going to do it at all, to do it well. And the discovery is soon made that there is a lot to learn about it, that it is worth learning, and that it is going to take too long to find it all out-for oneself. Hundreds of lives have been spent in finding out how best to dig and to sow and to plant, in trying experiments and trying and trying again, and now a great deal of experience is ready to your hand, to save you many disappointments. So now if you want to sow seeds you can use the services of the gardeners that have gone before you, and set about it in the way that will give yours the best chance. And this book is going to tell you some of the things you will want to know first.
But each gardener has to find out much for himself.
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