AUTUMN NEEDS 5? 



Take up in October, or before the ground 

 freezes, such bulbs and tubers as would perish if 

 left outdoors all winter. These include the dahlia, 

 canna, gladiolus, Galtonia candicans and Madeira 

 vine. It is a good plan to let them dry for a few 

 days under cover. This gives the tops a chance to 

 die down before they are cut off, while the clinging 

 soil falls away readily. Then place the tubers and 

 bulbs in a dry, dark cellar where they will be kept 

 from freezing and yet not be warm enough to start 

 premature growth. Cannas and dahlias may be 

 set on a board, raised a little from the floor, and 

 partially covered with the dry earth that has fallen 

 away from them. Very choice varieties of these 

 plants and all smaller tubers and bulbs would better 

 be laid in a wooden box and covered with dry 

 sand. The sand treatment may also be used for 

 wintering a few of the tender herbaceous peren- 

 nials like the red-hot poker plant (Tritoma). 



Very often it is worth while saving some of the 

 olants that were bedded out in the spring and have 

 made a sturdy growth these for future display 

 purposes. The lemon verbena and lantana, per- 

 haps, have developed into big shrubby plants and 

 there are geraniums, both "fish'* and fragrant, that 

 have seen one winter in the house but are now 

 grown beyond indoor convenience. Put all of these 

 in large pots or wooden boxes, crowding the plants 

 fairly close together. Keep them where they can 

 dry off, by the gradual withholding of water, but 

 where they will not freeze, until November and 



