SPRING 



pruning, but it was a short-sighted policy 

 to lose a season's flowers by premature 

 pruning, when by waiting three months the 

 work could be done equally well and with 

 better results. 



Standard Box and Box-edging should 

 always be set out in early Spring, as they 

 need a season's growth to enable them to 

 endure the first Winter. In case the Box- 

 edging set out the year before has an un- 

 even look, it can be clipped lightly, early in 

 April before growth begins. 



English Ivy is an excellent susbtitute for 

 Box-edging as a border for paths or beds. 

 In Paris it is universally grown for this 

 purpose, as all will remember who have 

 peeped through the tall iron fences or an 

 open gateway into the trim court yards and 

 gardens. The plants of Ivy are set about 

 every three feet, and half of the shoots 

 trained each way. The plants must be care- 

 fully pegged down, trimmed and kept free 

 from dead leaves. By the end of the sec- 

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