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foliage and store them away in a cool, dark 

 place until September, wrapped in paper, and 

 packed in boxes of buckwheat bran or dry saw- 

 dust. Wrapping in paper is necessary to pre- 

 vent evaporation. When I take them up, I 

 throw away all weak or diseased ones. The 

 beds in which they are to be planted in fall 

 should be prepared by spading up the soil to 

 the depth of a foot and a half, manuring it 

 well, and working it over until very fine and 

 mellow. Get the bulbs into the ground by the 

 middle of September, in order to give them 

 an opportunity to fully establish themselves 

 before cold weather comes. If I do not con- 

 sider it necessary to transplant, I manure the 

 bed well and grow annuals in it. These will 

 not interfere with the bulbs below. 



A GREAT many persons make a practice 

 2~\ of turning their house-plants out of their 

 pots at the beginning of summer and planting 

 them in the beds. They do this, they tell me, 

 for two reasons : it gives the plants a chance to 

 make strong, healthy growth, and it does away 

 with the care they must receive if kept in pots. 

 That plants in the garden-beds grow more 



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