A W0:MAN^S hardy GxVRDEN 



be grown. They can be laid down, to per- 

 mit painting. But, if the house be of wood 

 and well covered with vines, put off the evil 

 day of painting until it can be deferred no 

 longer, and then have it done early in No- 

 vember. Never, ne^ er permit it to be done 

 in the spring, or before November, unless 

 you would take the risk of killing the vines; 

 or of losing at least a season's growth. The 

 house surrounded by my gardens is colonial, 

 something over a hundred and fifty years old, 

 stern and very simple. Tall locusts, towering 

 abo\'e the roof, and vines that cover it from 

 ground to eaves, have taken away its other- 

 wise puritanical and somewhat uncompro- 

 mising aspect. These vines are mostly the 

 ordinary Virginia Creeper, which I had dug 

 from the woods and planted when the first 

 fat baby was two months old. Now their 

 main trunks are, in places, as large as my arm. 

 They have never been laid down. Whenever 

 the house has been repainted, I have been 

 constantly by, and admonished the men to 



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