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when the pot is removed, press slightly 

 between your hands before planting in the 

 hole which must be prepared to receive it. 



If you have specially fine plants that you 

 desire to keep for next winter in the house, 

 instead of removing from their pots, make a 

 hole large enough to bury the pot above the 

 rim; for by so doing the roots are kept in 

 control, making it easier to remove the en- 

 tire plant in the fall and repot for house with 

 little check. 



All the seedlings which have been raised in 

 the nursery boxes can also be bedded, and 

 most of the annuals sown. Pansy seeds 

 sown in the open ground now will bloom 

 late in the fall when the plants now being 

 bedded have run out. Chrysanthemums 

 should be planted out now for fall flowering, 

 and slips taken plentifully from old plants 

 which have been flowering through the 

 winter in the house. 



Watch the rose-bushes closely for insects. 



Whale-oil soap and rain water, gently sponged 



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