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Again some roots, like bleeding heart, are dug up 
in autumn and stored as the only means of early 
spring delivery. Better winter them in your gar- 
den than to buy them in spring, possibly sprouting 
and consequently weakened. 
Of later-blooming flowers it is well to plant all 
of the irises excepting the bulbous ones in Sep- 
tember, as spring will then find them well estab- 
lished instead of trying to readjust themselves the 
while they are gathering strength to bloom. Bul- 
bous irises are planted in October. It is well also 
to plant Phlox paniculata in September, or Octo- 
ber. The reason is the same; though less urgent, 
as the blooming period is later. 
Frost begins to be a serious problem some time 
in September. Very often one or two frosts come 
quite early and then there will be no more, per- 
haps, until October. For this reason it is deplor- 
able that the first frosts are allowed to blight the 
garden. Most of the hardy plants will stand frost 
after frost. The Japanese anemone is an excep- 
tion; this needs to be covered on frosty nights, 
otherwise its beautiful bloom is likely to be lost. 
When hardy chrysanthemums are neither close to 
the house nor where there are tree branches over- 
head, the large-flowered kinds would better be 
protected; they endure cold but the frost gets in 
the mass of petals and, melting, streaks the blos- 
soms with brown. 
Some of the annuals and all of the tender bed- 
ding plants are the ones to look after chiefly; and 
