38 FLOWER GARDENING 
courages growth, but weeds then will not get ahead , 
of you. Use a hoe wherever possible; it saves a 
lot of time and is more effective. Cultivation may 
begin as soon as the soil is dry enough to be 
easily worked. 
Wherever the bed or border is next to a grass 
plot, straighten the edge of the turf. Use a sharp 
spade and a line if a turf cutter is not available. 
\After shaking off some of the soil, throw the clods 
of turf into a wheelbarrow and make a new com- 
post heap or extend the old one. 
A simple way to start a compost heap is to lay 
out a square or rectangle in a place remote from 
the house and yet not inconvenient of access, by 
placing on the ground clods of turf, with the grass 
side down, something after the manner.of a founda- 
tion. If there is enough turf for walls a foot or 
more high and a flooring as well, so much the bet- 
ter. Throw into this kitchen refuse, lawn clip- 
pings and any easily rotted garden waste that does 
not contain weed or grass seeds; burn these. Cover 
lightly with earth any decaying matter that at- 
tracts flies. By the following spring the pile will 
be valuable fertilizer. 
Before April is past much of the transplanting is 
out of the way if time be taken by the forelock. 
Hybrid perpetuals, old-fashioned bush roses, climb- 
ing roses and flowering shrubs are best moved when 
the leaf buds have not begun to expand and the 
transplanting should therefore be done early in 
April; even late in March if the ground is ready. 
