Cryptograms

1. YNAS HS DIDWDBC KF CBUWNCS K YKWISU DX ESKBFNXBJ XJDVSWC VLSWS N MKU VKJQ BUINCFBWESI. ~VKJF VLNFHKU

-2. HJGSFIZIH GFXWZGFR MNUR NY KJUFG - ENRU NY ZU ZI UDF YNGE NY LFGRLZGJUZNI. ~MNW FGZAORNI

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-4. S EUUO BA S MDSJI IGSI BA JPI PJDQ BJ IGU EXPJY MDSTU, KLI BJIUJOA IP AISQ. ~ASXS AIUBJ

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-8. HNABHNSZ BVE ZRYBZK VSTSG MBXP HN GSBFK ABHYGXHC. CNY FBV ZUGBC HKSA IXHK BFXE, DSBH HKSA IXHK ZHXFJZ BVE DYGV HKSA; HKSC PNTS XH. ~Z.O. USGSPABV

-9. UYS IWSEUSLU RXMS EWU KR UYS RJUJWS PXVV NS UYS DEGXMI KR E TKDRKWUENVS VXHXMI RWKD E LDEVV AXSTS KR VEMZ. ~ENWEYED VXMTKVM

-10. ETGC XKCHO UTS KH OT QCLQICL OML HTKZ. OML SLHO OTTZ XTC OMKH KH ETGC FLKNMSTC'H NICRLF OKZZLC. KX ETGC FLKNMSTC RTLH FTO TJF I NICRLF OKZZLC, HGNNLHO OMIO ML SGE TFL. ~RIWL SICCE

5. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill

6. Bamboo: A plant bought as an infant to create a small vertical background in the garden. Instead, gardeners find that they've installed a behemoth that grows thirty feet tall, and is so invasive that it takes them twenty minutes to find the front door after parking in their driveways. ~ Art Wolk

manxman, Flo - both good!

2.Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson

4. A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay. ~Sara Stein

... and two more cigars!

3. The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on Earth. ~ Dorothy Frances Gurney

Yes, Jema!

8. Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. ~S. J. Perelman

9. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ~Abraham Lincoln

10. Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. ~Dave Barry

7.There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.Alfred Austin

manxman, Sondi, Haroula -

1. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~ Walt Whitman

To me, "odorous" would make more sense if it were elsewhere in the sentence. For instance:

an odorous garden ...
or
a garden of beautiful odorous flowers ...