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a little soil can be used. Whatever covering is used 

 it should be raked off in the spring at the first indica- 

 tion of growth. 



Established clumps are sufficiently anchored by their 

 roots and will winter well without protection. 



As to winter storage, see under When to Plant, 

 page 163. 



Fade, flowers, fade; Nature will have it so; 

 'Tis but what we must in our autumn do! 



Waller: Tr. out of French. 



Fled is the blasted Verdure of the fields; 

 And, shrunk into their beds, the flowery Race 

 Their sunny robes resign. 



Thompson: The Seasons. 



