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ing than to need the means for repotting a plant 

 in midwinter and to find that the only earth 

 available is frozen three or four feet deep and 

 that there is not a pot on which one can lay 

 one's hand in an emergency. Material for 

 drainage will be another requisite and this may 

 be provided in the form of broken crocks, 

 charcoal and sphagnum moss. 



Stakes for supporting plants and blossoms 

 will likely be needed and these should be pro- 

 cured while it may be done with comfort, for 

 nothing is more annoying than to be running 

 around in the cold in search of something that 

 might as well have been gotten while yet the 

 weather was warm. 



All pots and saucers, seed-flats and trowels 

 which will not be needed more out of doors 

 should be gathered up and stored where they 

 will be readily available in the spring. All 

 tools, watering-pots, lawn-mowers and sweep- 

 ers, rakes and the like should be looked over 

 and if in need of repairs attended to. A 

 watering-pot that has sprung a leak may often 

 be made as good as new by a coat of paint in- 

 side and out, and where the leak is a bad one, 

 a bit of cloth laid over the wet paint and given 

 another supplementary coat will renew the life 

 of the pot for a considerable period. A coat of 

 paint on the lawn-mower and a coating of the 

 working parts with vaseline will be a profitable 

 investment. It will probably be found at this 

 time that the carrier, if a canvas one, is in 

 need of repairs, and this, too, may have atten- 

 tion. 



All annuals that have had their day and 

 been laid low by frost should be pulled up and 

 consigned to the compost heap. The compost 

 heap should be the goal of one's ambition in 

 this annual clearing-up of the garden and every 

 particle of waste matter should find its way 

 there, to be transmuted by the alchemy of sun 

 and rain and the disintegrating force of nature 

 into that most valuable of soil constituents — 

 humus or leaf-mold. From this will be drawn 

 the material for the potting of all plants which 

 love the black, rich soil of the woods, for the 

 starting of tender seeds in the house in early 

 spring and for the lightening of the heavier 

 garden-soil. 



All beds should be raked clear from weeds 

 and empty beds may have the edges slightly 

 raised that they may not leach away, and 

 covered with manure, which will be spaded in 

 the spring. Droppings from the hen-house 

 may be used on the flower-beds if applied 

 on the empty beds in the fall, and may also 

 be used on the iris garden if not too fresh. 



Before the ground freezes hard the gladioli 

 should be lifted and placed in a warm, sunny 

 place to ripen the foliage before being stored 

 in bags for the winter. Cannas may be left 

 until about Thanksgiving before lifting if the 

 beds are well protected with leaves. The canna 

 is such a bad keeper that the shorter time they 

 are out of the ground the better. 



All other summer bulbs should be lifted and 

 cared for according to their several require- 

 ments and such fall-planting of bulbs made as 

 are desired. 



All garden-seats should be stored under 

 shelter and if they are in need of painting now 

 or later on will be a good time to do it. I 

 do not fancy the habit of leaving light, mov- 

 able seats out of doors during winter; they 

 do not add to the cheerfulness of the outlook, 

 indeed they have much the effect of a last year's 

 bird's nest — abandoned, desolate and forlorn. 



While clearing of beds of annuals, paths and 

 overlooking the perennial borders one should 

 keep a sharp outlook for insects of various 

 kind. The cut-worm will still be in evidence 

 and may be looked for around the root of 

 plants, under rubbish, around the edges of sod 

 bordering the flower-beds, and whenever 

 found should be destroyed. This precaution 

 will go far to safeguard the spring-planting, 



