XIX 



HOW TO TREAT FROZEN 



PLANTS 



N spite of the carefulness 

 with which the amateur 

 gardener guards her plants 

 against cold w^eather, they 

 may be frozen on some 

 night when the thermome- 

 ter falls to the below-zero 

 mark without any warning from the weather 

 as to what its intentions are. If she could 

 only know in advance of the change about 

 to take place, she would fight back the 

 frost-fiend, even if she had to sit up all night 

 and keep the fires going to do it. But fre- 

 quently these changes occur so suddenly that 

 we are caught napping, in all senses of the 

 word, and we get up in the morning to find the 

 mischief done. Our plants may even then 

 look all right, because of frost-stiffened leaves 

 that have not, as yet, been subjected to warmth 

 enough to cause them to wilt, and only exami- 



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