CHAPTER VII 

 THE GARDEN'S NEEDS IN AUTUMN 



THE work of the garden year is materially less 

 arduous when a proper proportion of it is spread 

 through the autumn months. A good garden ax- 

 iom is to leave nothing until spring that can be 

 done in autumn. No matter how much is gotten 

 out of the way, there need be no fear that one 

 cannot find enough to do in spring. 



It will not kill peonies to move them in spring, 

 but the best month is September. Oriental poppies 

 and Lilium candidum are transplanted the month 

 previous, as they make a new foliage growth in 

 early autumn. The other lilies are generally moved 

 in autumn, or a little before that if the foliage 

 has died down ; the spring bulbs in October. This 

 is about all that there is to the necessity of autumn 

 transplanting. 



The advisability of autumn transplanting is quite 

 another matter. It applies with particular force 

 to the making over of the hardy garden, which 

 is done to advantage every few years. There is 

 more time to do the work in autumn than in spring 

 and if the planting includes bulbs, other than the 

 rarities that bloom after September, everything 



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