1 02 GARDENING BY M YSELF. 



took to living wholly on melons and Lima 

 beans. We don't welcome him, and when 

 he comes we search him out with untiring 

 zeal ; but for the rest, we 11 just replant and 

 be content. 



A few of your pot-plants, — geraniums, 

 myrtle, and the like — may be safely detain- 

 ed in the house until quite late ; both to re- 

 pair such damages, and to replace hyacinths 

 and tulips as they get out of the way. I 

 rarely trouble myself to store crocuses and 

 snowdrops through the summer. If you 

 want them out of the beds, just make a lit- 

 tle hole in lawn-turf near the house, drop in 

 a crocus root — or a snowdrop — and cover it 

 up ; and so on, till they are all disposed of. 

 They will sleep there, safe and quiet, till 

 the time of the spring awakening ; and then 

 bloom out in full loveliness. So with snow- 

 flakes and bluebells, or grape-hyacinths as 

 they are called. I think they hardly ever 

 show so well anywhere, as scattered about 

 in the green grass. 



If you have pot-plants that are large, you 



