FALL WORK IN THE GARDEN 



spring the seed may be gotten into the ground 

 with the least possible delay and labour. 



It is possible that at this season there will remain 

 a number of cabbage and cauliflower plants, espe- 

 cially the latter, which have failed to make heads. 

 These may be lifted and planted in coldframes, 

 or even protected where they are by banking the 

 earth about the stems and protecting the tops with 

 straw, and used for very early planting in the 

 spring. Or if a few rough boards can be run along 

 one side of them where they stand to form a shel- 

 ter from the west wind and a little litter of corn 

 fodder thrown over them to form a shed, they will 

 usually come through all right. 



If a similar protection is given the parsley bed, 

 using evergreen boughs, if procurable, for the 

 shelter on the leaward side, parsley can usually be 

 had all winter. 



Every effort should be made at this season to 

 get rid of all insect pests which hibernate in any 

 form; a few hours spent in this work will be well 

 repaid. The cut-worm, which is the first pest to ap- 

 pear and cause trouble in the spring, hibernates 

 in the worm form usually and may be discovered 

 along the edges of the sod land under boards and 



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