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notches. This forms a support on which the ever- 

 green boughs, corn fodder, boards, bark, or anything 

 that will shed water and protect from sun and wind. 

 Leaves and litter are not suitable protection for Pan- 

 sies, as they settle around the plants, freezing and 

 causing them to decay. 



When there is a large garden to be cared for it is 

 not always expedient to carry the Pansy bed through 

 the summer, as the daily labour of removing the with- 

 ered flowers is very great. In that case it will be better 

 to let the Pansies go when hot weather reduces the 

 size and quantity of the flowers, replacing them with 

 plants grown for the purpose, Petunias, bedding Be- 

 gonias, Heliotropes, and the like. 



Sow Poppy seed freely wherever there is a corner to 

 spare, especially if it is a corner that would otherwise 

 be neglected and grow up to weeds. It is surprising 

 how many places may be found to sow them. A bar- 

 ren angle of a fence, a vacant strip behind or at the 

 side of some outbuilding, an exposed spot among trees 

 where nothing else will grow, a foot of ground here 

 and there, in the perennial border and among late 

 flowering plants, where the Poppies will have danced 

 through their brief season of bloom and passed on 

 before the former have discovered that they need 

 the room. Use all these odds and ends of room, but, 

 if possible, have a long, narrow bed of them single 

 and double, the deep blood red, the gorgeous scarlet, 

 the wonderful Shirleys, whose delicate cups like 



