November, 19 11 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



159 



Leaves are raked to the border and left in a ridge on the edge until the 

 ground freezes. In the case of an herbaceous border the leaves are tossed 

 over it with the leaf-rake 



This rose border is amply protected for the winter with maple leaves and 

 some pine needles, all raked on to it from the lawn. Note how quickly the 

 maple leaves curl up 



care must be taken that it be neither put 

 on too early, nor taken off too late. It 

 is the plants with more or less evergreen 

 crowns or shoots — and there are a great 

 many of these — that, in particular, are 

 apt to die of mistaken kindness rather than 

 of the winter's rigors. 



There once was a grower of flowers for 

 pleasure who asked the Italian foreman of a 



neighboring nursery what "ailed" her 

 foxgloves. "I know!" he said. "You put 

 manure on him. You don't want never 

 to put no manure on foxgloves, ever!" 

 What he said of foxgloves might be applied 

 to Canterbury bells, primulas, biennial 

 forget-me-nots, hollyhocks and other plants 

 with soft crowns, as well as plants with 

 soft evergreen shoots, like the chrysanthe- 



mum and snapdragon. With proper regu- 

 lation of the amount, manure may be 

 placed around them, but it must not lie 

 on them all winter. It is too heavy, it is 

 too warm, and it does not permit the air 

 to circulate. 



The matter of heaviness is likely to be 

 overlooked because of the seemingly 

 plausible argument that plants bear the 



Apple leaves placed part of the way around a New England aster, to illustrate 

 where such hard-wooded plants need the most protection. Note how the 

 apple leaves hold their shape 



Winter protection by the use of a few leaves and a roof of cornstalks. Fox- 

 gloves and Canterbury bells and small seedlings can be protected in this way 

 with safety and a minimum of trouble 



