CHAPTER VII 
THE GARDEN’S NEEDS IN AUTUMN 
Tue work of the garden year is materially less 
arduous when a proper proportion of it is spread 
through the autumn months. A good garden ax- 
iom is to leave nothing until spring that can be 
done in autumn. No matter how much is gotten 
out of the way, there need be no fear that one 
cannot find enough to do in spring. 
It will not kill peonies to move them in spring, 
but the best month is September. Oriental poppies 
and Lilium candidum are transplanted the month 
previous, as they make a new foliage growth in 
early autumn. The other lilies are generally moved 
in autumn, or a little before that if the foliage 
has died down; the spring bulbs in October. This 
is about all that there is to the necessity of autumn 
transplanting. 
The advisability of autumn transplanting is quite 
another matter. It applies with particular force 
to the making over of the hardy garden, which 
is done to advantage every few years. There is 
more time to do the work in autumn than in spring 
and if the planting includes bulbs, other than the 
rarities that bloom after September, everything 
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