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bed in early April. Keep the young plants 

 moist. About the fifteenth of July, if there 

 are a large number of plants and there be 

 no other place, they should be transplanted 

 to the vegetable garden, where they can fol- 

 low early crops of peas or lettuce. Have 

 the ground spaded finely, and make shallow 

 trenches, perhaps six inches deep, in which 

 put a good layer of manure and cover this 

 with earth, then set the plants about six 

 inches apart. Keep them well watered when 

 the weather is dry, and the earth thoroughly 

 stirred. By the twentieth of September or 

 the first of October they should be trans- 

 planted to the places where they are to 

 bloom the following year. The plants 

 should then be a foot across, and next 

 June will send up several stalks about three 

 feet high. The Canterbury Bells should be 

 six inches across in the fall, and the next 

 year about two feet high. 



Foxgloves seed themselves with great 

 abundance, unless the stalk is cut before the 



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