CHAPTER VII 



AUTUMN WORK IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



IT is difficult for beginners in the gentle 

 art of gardening to realize how much 

 time and patience are required to make suc- 

 cess. It is equally difficult at first for them 

 to understand that flowers to bloom in 

 late Summer and early Autumn must be 

 planted, if not the year before, certainly in 

 very early Spring, and that the Spring 

 garden must be prepared in the Fall. 



There is no busier time in the garden 

 than September and October, and no more 

 delightful season for the gardener's work. 

 After the first two weeks of September ex- 

 cessive heat does not return, and at any 

 hour of the day it is a delight to be out-of- 

 doors. 



Everthing accomplished in these Autumn 

 months is so much gained for the following 

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