180 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



I should find joy in them every day in the year, 

 and so I shall remember all these things against 

 the advent of another winter and make my 

 plans now for planting that shall grace every 

 season." 



These are the things that will be passing in 

 the mind. Then there will come the thought 

 of the new catalogues for which one should be 

 sending, that in their pages the old favorites 

 may be welcomed and new ones discovered. 

 Before it is time to be actually working in the 

 soil what to plant and where to plant it may 

 well be thought out. 



The garden monitors tell us that the middle 

 of February is not too early for starting vari- 

 ous early vegetables indoors or in the green- 

 house, later to be transferred to the hot-beds 

 or to the coldframes outside; that (except in 

 the colder section of the country), if you have 

 rhubarb in your garden from year to year, you 

 may begin to force the roots at the end of the 

 month an early growth by placing barrels or 

 boxes over them and covering with stable 

 manure to bring the stocks well in advance of 

 their ordinary season; that plum trees and 

 cherry trees should be examined for plum-knot, 



