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three weeks earlier than any sown the following 

 spring. 



Mulch spinach, sprouts, kale and strawberry 

 beds. When everything has been stored and 

 bedded for winter, manure and plow the vacant 

 soil. 



Flowers. Protect all plants which are to re- 

 main in the ground; get ready, by fertilizing, 

 digging and thoroughly pulverizing beds to be 

 used early in spring ; make a deep trench by re- 

 moving about two feet of the earth, and refill 

 with a mixture of manure and the original soil. 

 Then sow sweet peas. You will reap twice the 

 ordinary number of flowers next summer. 



If you intend to buy any house-plants, get 

 them now, before they have been accustomed to 

 the artificial heat of the conservatory. 



Allow the grass to grow on the lawn. It acts 

 as a mulch, and protects the roots. An old lawn 

 can be greatly improved by giving it a vigorous 

 combing with a steel rake and scattering hay- 

 seed over it ; for the constant freezing and thaw- 

 ing of the coming months will carry down the 



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