CHAPTER VIII 



THE FLOWER GARDEN IN THE SPRING 



WTH the first mild day that comes 

 in March the thoughts of all garden 

 lovers, who spend the Winter months in the 

 round of city life, fly away to their gar- 

 dens. They know that within the brown 

 earth, soon to become soft and warm, the 

 hearts of the plants are beginning to stir, 

 and that watching eyes will see, with each 

 day's sunshine, new tender shoots of green 

 appear. Let us then consider first the order 

 of work to be followed in an old garden, 

 or in one that was laid out and planted the 

 year before. 



Wherever gardens were covered in late 



Autumn with a mulch this should be removed 



in the Spring, the very day that the frost 



entirely leaves the ground, otherwise the 



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