^ Do not plant your bulbs until as late in the Autumn as 

 possible. The Madonna lily bulbs are the exception, of course, 

 as they mu^t make some growth before freezing weather. 



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^ Remove all the old ripened lily and eremuri ^alks. A wise 

 precaution is to heap a trowelful of sand where the stalks have 

 been pulled out. * * * * 



^ Do not fail to see that all delphinium crowns are heaped with 

 coal ashes or sand, preferably coal ashes if obtainable. 



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^ Make every possible effort to guard again^ girdling. The 

 girdlers de^royed entire gardens la^t Winter. 



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^ Scatter coarse ground bone through all your rose beds and 

 have it raked in after the beds are "cleaned up." It will take all 

 Winter for coarsely ground bone to become available as food. 



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^ Protecft your great flowered clematis with five inches of 

 rotted manure. * * * * 



^ Lime all clematis two weeks before applying the manure. 

 Lime is to clematis what sulphate of iron is to roses. 



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^ Cover the crowns of your columbines with coal ashes to 

 protedt them from their enemy, the columbine grub. 



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^ Autumn is the be^ time to cut out all dead and worthless 

 wood on shrubs and vines. 



