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in an oven hot enough to bake all the germs of weeds, 

 insects, and moss ; let them then take their rest in a 

 recumbent position, one within the other, not standing 

 upright. Plant tulip-beds. Mulch liberally the roots 

 of whatever you merely suspect will be the better for 

 it, whether passion-flowers, Tecomias, Brugmansias, 

 Macartney microphylla and multiflora roses, or clianthus 

 and hibiscus ; if you can thereby save and secure only 

 one fine specimen out of half a dozen, you will be amply 

 rewarded. Sweep up leaves from your walks and grass- 

 plots, as if you were afraid you should never, never have 

 leaf-mould enough. Dragging a garden-roll is capital 

 gymnastic exercise ; and your grass-plots and gravel- 

 walks will be very much the better for it. Carefully 

 cultivate the foliage of Cape bulbs and others that have 

 flowered in autumn. See that such plants as take their 

 rest now, be allowed to enjoy it undisturbed, without 

 having their slumbers broken by unnecessary warmth 

 and moisture ; on the other hand, administer moderate 

 refreshment and heat to such, as the cyclamens, which 

 are beginning to wake up. Lay down turf for lawns and 

 grass edgings. Put a covering of dead leaves, fern, 

 furze, or light litter, over whatever wants it out of doors. 

 Mind your Alpines. Give all the air you can at every 

 favourable quarter of an hour. Keep grass short ; you 

 will sweep up your rubbish all the more easily. Stake 

 and tie new-planted strangers : they are none the better 

 for being rocked about by the wind. Trench and manure 

 ground for next year's gross feeders, such as hollyhocks, 

 dahlias, and perpetual roses. 



DECEMBER 



Pbocure and plant rose-stocks for budding. See 

 that they have well-ripened wood, of whatever species 

 they may be. If of the common dog-rose, prefer such 

 as have grown in exposed situations, to the smooth 

 green stems drawn up under trees. A garden may be 

 enjoyed in winter as well as in summer — think of that 



