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portant functions without let or hindrance. Large everg-reens may also he 

 safely removed this month. Space forbids me to enter into details now, 

 I trust to say something about how and what to plant next month. Turl- 

 laying, and groundwork generally, will also be proceeded with. Where 

 much has to be done, a great deal will be gained by beginning early. 



193S. Reserve Garden. — Keep annuals, and other plants in beds quite 

 clear. Plant off primroses, polyanthuses, violets, Iberis, and Arabis. Wall- 

 flowers may now be removed to flower-beds and borders, if these have 

 been cleared of their summer occupants. Increase by division of the roots, 

 such herbaceous plants as rockets, lychnis, &:c., and plant them in beds 

 in this department. Plant beds of narcissus, hyacinths, crocuses, &c., 

 either for pennanent flowering here, or for removal to the flower-garden 

 afterwards. 



1939. Florists' Floicers. — Place auriculas, polyanthuses, pinks, carnations, 

 &c., if not already done, in their winter quarters. Give all the air possible- 

 to induce a quick growth. Gather hollyhock and dahlia seeds if ripe. Pot 

 choice varieties of hollyhocks, and winter under glass. Pot up j^ansiesfor- 

 stores and flowering in pots. Plant out seedlings and put in cuttings. Pre- 

 pare beds of good, light, fibrous, sandy loam for tulips, and have all in readi- 

 ness for planting the main stock early next month. 



1940. Flower-Garden. — Maintain scrupulous cleanliness, and continue the 

 beauty here as long as possible. Pi-epare pots and space for iDotting or boxing 

 the chief stock of geraniums, calceolarias, jasmines, &c. If frost should come, 

 get everything you intend to save under cover directly, and proceed to store 

 them away at your leisure. There is, however, no necessity for destroying 

 the beauty of the garden until the frost does it for you. It is often annoying 

 to obsei-ve the anxiety with which beauty is welcomed in June, and the 

 recklessness with which it is destroyed in October ; and yet its preservation 

 now seems to me to be of as much, if not more importance, than its advent 

 then. With ordinary caution and extraordinary activity, there is but little; 

 danger in allowing King Frost to wreak his first vengeance on the garden. 

 By constantly removing dead flowers and leaves, our garden here was as gay 

 as possible in the second week in November last year. One day it was 

 enwrapped in summer loveliness ; the next morning it was covered with a 

 thick mantle of snow. All hands were concentrated on this point, and 

 about a thousand plants were rescued in a single day. Neither were they any 

 the worse of their cold white wreath. It was worth a special effort to have 

 exhibited so much beauty at such a season. Summer thus impinged upon the 

 domain, and shortened the reign of winter. The enlivening presence of the 

 flowers postpones our lament for the summer, when, in the words of Miss 

 Procter, we are compelled to exclaim, — 



" Moan, oh ye Autumn Winds ! 



Summer has fled. 

 Thp flowers have closed their tender leaves and diej 



The lily's gracious head 

 All low must lie. 



Because the gentle Summer now is dead. 



