CHAPTER II 



HARDY GARDENING AND THE PREPARATION 

 OF THE SOIL 



TT has not been all success. I have had to 

 learn the soil and the location best suited 

 to each plant; to know when each bloomed 

 and which lived best together. Mine is a 

 garden of bulbs, annuals, biennials and hardy 

 perennials; in addition to which there are 

 Cannas, Dahlias and Gladioli, whose roots 

 can be stored, through the winter, in a cellar. 

 All the rest of the garden goes gently to 

 sleep in the autumn, is well covered up 

 about Thanksgiving time, and slumbers 

 quietly through the winter ; until, with the first 

 spring rains and sunny days, the plants seem 

 fairly to bound into life again, and the never- 

 ceasing miracle of nature is repeated before 

 our wondering eyes. 



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