THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



At some convenient season, every one of 

 these plants may be taken up with care, and, 

 if properly planted in the situation each 

 demands, they will go on growing serenely. 

 These native plants may even be lifted, 

 transported from almost any distance not too 

 great, and so replanted that, the following 

 day, there will be no suspicion that they 

 have not always lived there on the banks of 

 the little stream, or wherever they may have 

 been set. 



A peaty bog will usually be filled with 

 wild roses, azaleas and sweet pepper. Some- 

 times these bushes cling to the rocks in a net- 

 work of fibrous roots, making a foot-hold in 

 the leaf-mold which gives them life. They 

 may be stripped from the rocks intact and 

 taken away to plant elsewhere. In dry times, 

 when the swamps are accessible, the bushes 

 that grow in the rich, wet soil can be taken 

 up with a solid ball of earth around the roots 

 and replanted with certainty of living. 



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