CHAPTER XVIII 



FALL WOBK IN THE 6AEDEN 



Fall work in the garden should reaUy commence 

 about the fifteenth of August, at which time one 

 should begin to make sowings of hardy perennials 

 for the next year's garden. I always try to get my 

 pansy seed into the ground by the middle of the 

 month if possible and to lift and move my Annuncia- 

 tion lilies at that time. They are then dormant and 

 the disturbance does them no harm, though even a 

 week later it will, as they will have again begun 

 preparation for the next season's period of bloom. 



This, too, is the season for lifting and resetting 

 all of the narcissus family. "Wistarias can be trimmed 

 this month with advantage also. 



Where one has the convenience of a coldframe or 

 a spent hotbed the conditions for sowing seeds of 

 hardy perennials are all that could be desired, but 

 where these are not at hand or the hotbed has been 

 utilized for summer plants, like crinums or amaryllis, 

 then one must improvise a plant bed in some out- 

 of-the-way comer. Any bit of good, friable soil will 



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