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When for any reason the plants have 
been left too long in the hot-beds or have 
become crowded and have “kneed over” 
so that some length of the stalk lies on 
the ground, making fresh roots at the 
point of contact, it will be well in plant- 
ing such specimens to make a trench long 
enough to lay the plant therein so that 
only the erect part of the plant remains 
above ground. Tomatoes are prone to 
this habit and when planted in this way 
do very well indeed, as they have a much 
stronger root system than when grown 
in a normal way. Cosmos is another 
plant of like habit, and whenever this 
occurs it should be planted, or rather, 
trenched, in a way to make available the 
entire root growth and give a clean, up- 
right growth above ground. 
But drought, irregular growth and in- 
judicious planting are not the only 
troubles of newly set plants; the noc- 
turnal cut-worm lies in wait in all newly 
worked land, or adjacent thereto, ready 
to feast upon any tender, green things 
he comes across, and the destruction 
wrought in a single night by this pest is 
sometimes surprising. Every one who 
plants and tends a garden should make it 
a business of first importance to visit his 
plantings the first thing every morning 
and inspect the condition of the plants; 
many will be found cut away just above 
the surface of the ground and when this 
occurs, the perpetrator should be found 
and summarily dealt with. Usually a 
slight stirring of the ground about the 
decapitated plant will discover the cul- 
prit in the form of a fat, gray, brown or 
reddish worm, curled up asleep. and di- 
gesting his ill-got meal. 
One should never allow a plant cut off 
in this way or missing from any cause 
to remain unreplaced. Set another at 
once and preserve the full complement 
of numbers. This is where the great ad- 
vantage of a hot-bed is demonstrated, as 
enough plants may always be left in the 
bed to replace any likely loss from 
worms, wilting of plants or any other 
causes save frost. Of course, if a hard 
frost catches one’s entire planting it may 
tax the resources of an average hot-bed 
to replace them; for this reason it is well 
to hold one’s hand somewhat in the in- 
itial planting of the garden. 
In the setting of such plants as are 
likely to require staking—as cosmos, 
dahlias and the like—it is a distinct ad- 
vantage to set the stake at the time of 
setting the plant, as in this way all dam- 
age to the roots is avoided. It is almost 
impossible to thrust a stout stake down 
into the ground beside a plant of much 
root growth without causing injury to 
the root; especially is this the case with 
plants which make a mass of spreading 
tubers like the dahlia. 
In transplanting plants from one part 
of the garden to another, especially those 
hardy things which do not take kindly 
to removal and are apt to shed the earth 
from the roots when lifted, the operation 
is safeguarded by first digging the holes 
the plants are to occupy in their new 
position and then lifting the plant on the 
spade with as little disturbance as pos- 
sible and carrying it, still on the spade, 
to the hole and slipping it carefully in 
place. If a little water has previously 
been poured into the hole and then the 
earth firmed about the roots and more 
water applied and the whole finished off 
with a dust mulch as in the case of seed- 
lings, few, if any, plants will be the 
worse for the transference. 
