New Series, Supplement to November, 1905. 



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The time to take off the blanket in 

 the spring is when he has heard the 

 bhiebird and robin two weeks. Some 

 people wait nntil they have heard the 

 frogs peep. 



Teddy wants to plant some crocuses 

 that blossom so early in the spring 

 that sometimes a late snow covers 

 them. 



But the crocus belongs to the cold- 

 blooded class of plants and the white 

 mantle does them no harm. 



You now see him driving some pegs 

 showing the circle where he will plant 

 the crocus bulbs. 



Teddy takes the spade and cuts the 

 circle in the sod. 



Then he will take the spading fork 

 and loosen the soil and make it fine 

 with the garden rake. 



Next he will push the crocus bulbs 

 into the mellow soil about three inches 

 deep. 



About the time that small ponds of 

 water have ice thick enough to bear 

 the weight of a dog. he will cover the 

 circular bed with a blanket of stable 

 fertilizer or dead leaves. 



He will take the blanket from the 

 crocuses a little earlier in the spring 

 than from his tulip bed, for they are so eager to blossom that the> will not 

 wait for the warm Alay days as the tulips do. 



TEDDY AND HIS FLOWER GARDEN 



Teddy has a bed of Sweet Alyssum. It has given him a lot of blos- 

 soms since July. Other flowers in the mean time have become tired and 

 ceased blooming. 



He is so fond of it that he will try potting a plant for indoor flowers 

 this winter. 



Teddy says that some day he will be a doctor. He takes care of a doc- 

 tor's horse and uses a doctor's language. When he takes a plant from the 



