AUTUMN. 117 



About the end of autumn is a good time for transplant- 

 ing and dividing plants that have outgrown the proper 

 dimensions ; rearranging the borders, and carrying out any 

 alterations that have been planned during summer. It 

 requires some patience to wait till October or November 

 for these changes, and, no doubt, it is not so pleasant to 

 execute them then as it would be in finer weather ; but the 

 impatience that leads one to do things at a wrong season 

 generally brings its own punishment : the transplanted 

 shrubs wither, or get such a check in their growth, that 

 more time is lost in the end by our indiscreet haste. This 

 pleasant part of our work may be prolonged during the 

 fine days of early winter, and to that season we must now 

 turn. 



