IN SUMMER 



across at its widest part. I run a stout wire 

 out and in through the lap in the paper. This 

 holds the cone in shape. The lower end of the 

 wire is inserted in the earth, on the sunward 

 side of the plant. The covering thus formed 

 and supported affords all the shade that is 

 needed without interfering with a free circula- 

 tion of air. At night the cones are removed, 

 that the plant may get the benefit of the dew. 

 If the season is dry and the weather hot, 

 artificial watering must be resorted to in order 

 to secure a proper development of nearly all 

 the flowers grown in the average garden. But 

 do not begin it unless you can, or will, continue 

 it as long as it is needed. Better let your 

 plants take the chances of pulling through the 

 dry spell unaided than to begin to give assist- 

 ance of this kind and then discontinue it. In 

 applying water, do it after sundown, as evap- 

 oration will take place slowly then and your 

 plants will get the fullest amount of benefit 

 from it. Use a watering-pot with a long 

 spout, without a spray-nozzle. This will en- 

 able you to get the water just where it is needed 

 most at the roots at the centre of the plant. 

 If you use a spray-nozzle, the water will be so 

 sprinkled over a large surface of ground that 



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