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suited for those plants that resent undue richness, 

 but others, like the Reserve beds for sweet-peas, 

 need careful, deep digging and plenty of manure. 

 When the shortest day has passed, shallots are 

 planted, and we know that they will remind us too 

 of the longest summer day, for that will be about 

 the time when they will be taken up for storing. 



In all this preparatory work, it is of great assist- 

 ance to have plans marked out upon paper, so that 

 students can look over last year's cropping arrange- 

 ment and compare it with the new plan that is 

 proposed for the coming year. If this were done 

 in many private gardens, it would ensure greater 

 success with vegetables, for a rotation of crops 

 upon different ground is so necessary and yet so 

 difficult to carry out if there happens to be a change 

 of gardeners and the one who planned the cropping 

 is not on the spot to tell his successor about it. I 

 also think that the owner of the garden would find 

 that it would increase his personal interest in the 

 arrangements of the kitchen garden. 



Hedges now call for attention. They are treated 

 with consideration, not merely because of the pro- 

 tection that they give to plants, but also on account 

 of the reminder of their value to the landlord, which 

 is laid stress upon in every lease, and so just now 

 they must have a last clip with the shears before 

 the spring. Young trees also, planted in groups 

 together, in order to gain warmth and shelter from 

 one another, have to be separated and arranged in 

 other colonies where they will find more ample 

 space for growing and perhaps help to hide an ugly 

 shed or building. 



