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because the little plants winter-kill. I have never lost a 

 single one at this stage, even if they were growing astray in 

 the walks, quite unprotected by mulch but it is all due to 

 the deep snow. In removing mulch in the spring, do it 

 gradually, to avoid the results of heavy spring frosts at night. 



It makes considerable difference where certain plants are 

 set. The Montbretia is quoted as a tender bulb, which 

 requires lifting and storing in the cellar during winter. I 

 have carried mine through several winters successfully, when 

 planted in the main lower garden, in a sheltered position, 

 though I have lost others twice when they were planted on an 

 elevated terrace within a foot of the outside stone wall. 

 Give tender things a sheltered corner, and perhaps a pine 

 bough or two, or better still place a barrel or box over them 

 filling it with leaves. I attempted this treatment with a Cher- 

 okee rose brought from Florida, but I failed to place manure 

 about the roots first, though the leaves were piled to the top 

 of the box when I left in early winter; on my return they had 

 melted down to four or five inches. The consequence was 

 I lost all but a single shoot of my rose. I ought also to have 

 put a cover on the box. I forgot to mulch it in any way the 

 next winter, and lost it entirely, though I have carried Florida 

 honeysuckle through three winters without much attention. 

 As I look back I seem to have made every mistake possible 

 to ignorance. But, given every possible mistake, one is bound 

 to learn considerable as the years go by. Tender roses and 

 shrubs should be tied up in straw, but I do not try to grow 

 things that have to be coddled. 



Under the propagation of plants comes the very essential 

 question of how close plants should be set together. There 

 are different opinions about this matter, and I have tried all 

 sorts of ways, and find in a dry climate such as mine, that 

 close planting is a necessity. For annuals of tall slender 



