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up with them; and as soon as they are sufüciently 
grown for us to distinguish them apart, we 
must carefully pull up the, weeds, which would 
choke the tender plants if they were left, Idare 
say you know the proverb, “Il weeds grow 
apace,” and it is a very true one, for as the coarse 
groundsel soon outgrows the delicate lupin, so 
a bad habit will soon overcome a good one, if we 
are not very much upon our guard, Well—here 
is summer at last! Now indeed our garden is 
beautiful,—now it repays all our labour ten 
times over. How lovely are the roses and 
clematis against the cottage wall, their blossoms 
peeping in at the very window; and how sweet 
the pinks aud mignonette smell! We can now 
gather a fine nosegay of flowers, which will look 
very pretty and cheerful in the house, and if put 
m a mug of water, will keep alive for some days, 
Let us look at the currant and gooseberry bushes 
to see how they are getting on. Ah! here are 
beautiful bunches of currants, both red and white, 
and plenty of nice gooseberries also, they are 
nearly ripe already. Our vegetables, too, must 
be almost fit for use; here are early cabbages, 
and peas, and beans; a little later, we shall have 
carrots and onions, and some others. There is not 
much hard work to be done in the garden at pre 
sent, but it. must not be neglected; the flowers 
must be tied up to prevent the wind, or their own 
weight, from dragging them down on the ground. 
[If the weather is very dry, they must be watered, 
and, above all, the weeds must be carefully pulled 
up as fast as ther -2ar. On the whole, how- 
ever, the summer >“ “he time for us to reap the