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beets, carrots, turnips, celery, etc., in cool but 

 frost-proof places by this time, and we should 

 turn our attention to the lettuce, cauliflower, 

 etc., that can now go into the coldframe for 

 wintering against setting out early in the 

 springtime. 



November brings one to contemplate the 

 garden indoors. House-plants have come to 

 be much neglected of late years. Of course 

 one does not wish for the return of the sense- 

 less old fashion of filling up every window in 

 the house with foliage which prevailed. What 

 funny things one used to see — dehcate 

 Fuchsias in tomato-cans or old sugar-bowls 

 converted into receptacles for the second-best 

 Geraniums! Nevertheless there is much hap- 

 piness to be attained through the pursuit of 

 indoor gardening, and it is well worth think- 

 ing about seriously. 



Joyous is one whose garden passeth from 

 Summer's glories through Autumn's gorgeous- 

 ness into Winter's immobile whiteness with 

 that grace which will lead one to have faith in 

 the Niobe-like awakening when Spring shall 

 breathe again upon the face of the frozen earth. 

 There is nothing more dismal and bleak than 



