Winter long. Nor would we permit our seed- 

 lings to be exposed even to the light of day, with- 

 out protecfting glass frames to woo the warmth. 

 But some of the plants that give us the greater 

 pleasure, and enhance our gardens with di^inc- 

 tion seem to receive no special thought, no watch- 

 ful care, no appreciation of all the delight they 

 have brought us, and are left to the tender 

 mercies of the Winter bla^s. 

 ^ Why is it that fewer plants are lo^ in cold north- 

 ern New Hampshire and Vermont than gardens 

 subje(5ted to far less Winter severity? The reason is 

 simple enough; lack of the right kind of protection. 

 Ju^ think of the freezing and thawing, the burn- 

 ing Winter sun during parts of the day and the 

 Ardtic drop again after sunset and during the 

 lonely night. Poor Dears! Is it any wonder that 

 many of them succumb and we never see their 

 lovely blooms again ? 



^ What will prevent this yearly loss? perhaps you 

 are thinking. The soil pack will do so and it 

 requires nothing special, being nothing more or 

 less than good garden soil, preferably from the 

 vegetable garden. 



^ Soil that has produced good vegetables is the 

 be^ possible kind to employ for the pack, and a 

 powdering of horticultural lime should never be 

 omitted. The soil should be heaped up around the 

 base of the plants or shrubs into a pyramid 

 twelve or fifteen inches high and packed hard and 

 solid with the back of a spade. 

 ^The sun, so welcome to us, can not scald our 

 treasures thus protecTted, when without it they 

 are burned as through a burning glass S& For 

 example we will proceed to protedt our buddleias 

 and Japanese anemones. We will assume a killing 

 fro^ has blighted the blooms in our gardens, the 



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