GARDEN-LORE.
Every child who has gardening tools,
Should learn by heart these gardening rules.
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.