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barroAvfuls. As it comes into the hole, the men will 

 chop it with the spade and tread it down close, mixing 

 in a little sand. This will make a nice cool, moist 

 bottom of slowly - rottiag vegetable matter. Some 

 more of the same kind of waste will come from the 

 kitchen garden — cabbage-stumps, bean-haulm, soft 

 weeds that have been hoed up, and all the greenest 

 stuff from the rubbish-heap. Every layer will be 

 chopped and pounded, and trampled down so that 

 there should be as little sinking as possible afterwards. 

 By this time the hole will be filled to within a foot of 

 the top ; and now we must get together some better 

 stuff — road-scrapings and trimmings mixed with some 

 older rubbish-heap mould, and for the top of all, some 

 of our precious loam, and the soil of an old hotbed 

 and some weU-decayed manure, all well mixed, and 

 tnen we are ready for the Lilies. They are planted 

 only just underground, and then the whole bed has a 

 surfacing of dead leaves, which helps to keep down 

 weeds, and also looks right with the surrounding wild 

 ground. The remains of the heap of sand we must 

 deal with how we can; but there are hollows here 

 and there in the roadway and paths, and a place that 

 can be levelled up in the rubbish-yard, and some 

 kitchen-garden paths that will bear raising, and so by 

 degrees it is disposea oi." 



