OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



till new leaves have started, and it rains 

 again. They are the most difficult flowers 

 to transplant that I have handled, but I 

 rarely fail with them by taking the fore- 

 going method. In the fall of the year it 

 is my custom to cut off every flower and 

 seed pod from my plants, and to remove 

 all dead stems and waste matter from 

 vines and shrubs, such as long straggling 

 branches, dead twigs and leaves, and the 

 like. I then fork the surface of the beds, 

 remove the weeds, and have them covered 

 with a good sprinkling of manure, and a 

 mulch of dead leaves, lawn clippings, or 

 pine needles. 



I return so late in the spring always 

 that the weeds have a fine start in all my 

 beds before I get home, so when I arrive 

 my first care is to fork them out, whole- 

 sale, and in the process the mulch of 

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