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November before they are ready to go into 

 their winter quarters, but they should be. got 

 ready for them in advance, by giving the tubers 

 a chance to ripen their annual growth before 

 they are stored away. 



Because the growth of grass on the lawn is 

 not as luxuriant and rapid at this season as in 

 midsummer is no reason why it should be 

 neglected. It should be mowed whenever the 

 grass gets too tall to look well, clear up to 

 the end of the season. The neat and attrac- 

 tive appearance of the home-grounds depends 

 more upon the lawn than anything else about 

 them. It is a good plan to fertilize it well in 

 the fall, thus enabling the roots of the sward 

 to store up nutriment for the coming season. 

 I have found finely ground bone-meal very 

 effective for this purpose. It is prompt in 

 effect, produces a strong growth, and no weeds 

 are ever introduced by its use. 



Go over the garden and gather up all plants 

 that have completed their work for the sea- 

 son. If we neglect the beds, now that many 

 of the plants in them are past their prime, a 

 general appearance of untidiness soon domi- 

 nates everything. Much of the dismal effect of 

 the fall season is due to this lack of attention. 

 But a prompt removal of all unsightly objects 

 will keep the grounds looking well, even if 

 they have lost some of the brilliant show of 

 color which characterized them earlier in the 

 season. 



It is too early to do anything in the way of 

 protection of plants against the severity of 

 winter, but it is not too early to begin to get 

 ready for this work. Save the leaves to cover 

 tea roses, pansies, and other small plants. 

 Rake them up, as they fall, and store 

 them under shelter where they will keep dry 

 until the time comes to use them. If plants 

 are to be wrapped with straw, or matting, 

 arrange for it in advance. If we put off work 

 of this kind until the last minute, we are 

 pretty sure to let a good deal go undone, and 

 the quality of that which is done is not likelv 

 to be of the best. It pays to look ahead, and 

 have everything at hand against the time of 

 need. And it pays — richly — to do good, con- 

 scientious work in preparing our plants for 

 winter. Slovenly work, here as elsewhere, is 

 about on a par with no work at all. 



SOME OF OUR NIGHT- BLOOM- 

 ING FLOWERS 



By Ida D. Bennett 



A CHARM of mystery and sentiment 

 hovers around those plants that open 

 their flowers as the wings of the 

 night brush their petals with dew and the call 

 of the moth and firefly for sweets is insistent 

 with longing. When the bee, that all day- 

 long has flitted from flower to flower on 

 honey laden wings, has folded his wings and 

 crept into the petals of the day-blooming rose 

 and lily, to dream away the night in perfumed 

 sleep, then the great starry-eyed and soft- 

 winged moths hover around the tubes of the 

 night-blooming flowers. The night is full of a 

 soft, tremulous motion of dusky wings and 

 subtle, intoxicating odors, unknown by day. 

 Curiously enough only deep throated, tube- 

 shaped flowers bloom at night, the flowers 

 beloved by the long tongued moths. The 

 silver winged tobacco moth — Cariolanus — 

 whose flexible tongue frequently measures five 

 inches in length, frequents the deep throated 

 hells of the tobacco plant — Nicotiana atrinis, 

 and the night-blooming moonflower; over 

 the evening primrose the Everix Myron 

 waves its wings of olive and brown while 



