ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



plants under it may start unnaturally and 

 their early growth be injured by late Spring 

 frosts. When the beds are uncovered, the 

 red shoots of the Paeonies, and the green 

 ones of Tulips, Daffodils, Phlox, and Holly- 

 hocks, will have already put up their heads. 

 All gardeners know the thrill of delight 

 with which this first appearance of life 

 among the flowers is welcomed. 



After the beds have been uncovered the 

 whole place must be carefully raked, and all 

 the beds, borders and paths edged, by cut- 

 ting with a sharp spade or a grass edging 

 knife. Wherever the grass seemed thin the 

 season before, new seed should be sown and 

 thoroughly rolled in while the ground is 

 soft. In about two weeks this new grass 

 should appear; and if some cotton seed 

 meal, which is a most excellent fertilizer for 

 grass, be sown thinly as soon as it is well 

 up, and followed by some wood-ashes along 

 in May, there should be a fine sod in June. 

 If it is a dry Spring, the newly sown grass 



