AUTUMN WORK 



and manure. If the top soil is of a clayey 

 nature, it should be put in a pile and mixed 

 with one-fourth sand to lighten it before 

 returning to the bed. This should be filled 

 very full, as with the disintegration of the 

 manure the bed will sink. 



The owner of the garden may have no- 

 ticed during the Summer that plants in 

 certain beds or borders have not done well. 

 The earth has seemed hard and dry, and 

 the plants have not been luxuriant either in 

 foliage or bloom. The soil is either poor or 

 exhausted, or it has not been properly pre- 

 pared. These beds should then be re-made 

 by lifting the plants, setting them, after 

 watering well, in a shady place and proceed- 

 ing exactly as if making new beds. It is 

 best to take up at one time only so much 

 space as can be entirely finished and the 

 plants reset in one day. Ground thus pre- 

 pared will raise splendid plants for several 

 years if given a top dressing of fine manure 

 in the Spring after the plants have started. 

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