tall green sprays with rose, white, silver pink and 

 ruby flowers and long lilac tassels " will bloom 

 no more until another Spring or Summer." How 

 are we going to care for them? All the buddleias 

 are to be cut down to about twenty inches, and 

 good garden soil is to be packed hard about them 

 up to twelve or fifteen inches. We will protedt our 

 rather tender Japanese anemones in the same 

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^ In the Spring the soil packs will be brought 

 down and smoothed out to the garden level and 

 then the plants will all be cut back to within three 

 or four inches of the crowns. What will be the 

 benefits derived from the soil pack you wish to 

 know? I will tell you. The vigor of the plants has 

 been conserved in the big roots which will pro- 

 duce splendidly luxuriant bushes, broad and 

 healthy and, 1 will say, almo^ twice the size they 

 were the previous Summer. 

 ^ Wherever your garden may be it matters not 

 how cold it is, or how hot the sun may be, the soil- 

 pack protection will guard your plants through 

 all of Winter's vagaries. 



^ I am afraid we have undere^imated the great 

 value of proper and efficient plant protecftion, and 

 until the results of soil pack are appreciated and 

 it is applied we amateur gardeners mu^ be pre- 

 pared to often lose the plants we love the be^. 



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