CHAPTER IV— APRIL 



PLANTING OF ALL SORTS, AND SOME RESULTS 



PLANT; plant early, plant carefully; but 

 plant! Such is the impulse of April; and 

 the planting must be of seeds for food and 

 for flower, of trees for fruit and for foliage, and of 

 shrubs and plants for all these ends. Plant early; 

 that is the vital point for most things, as my five 

 interesting years of Breeze Hill garden experience 

 sums it up. 



For it seems in some way to definitely promote 

 the prosperity and progress of the plants if this 

 chilly April ground settles early about their roots, 

 even if a later snow or two suggests a return to 

 winter. The reason probably is that, with the 

 plant or tree thus in place, the root action may 

 begin without any waste of time at just the moment 

 enough of the sim's warmth is available; while 

 later planting, in too many cases, means that 

 healthy root action has been begun in the wrong 

 place — at the nursery, in the package, or where 

 temporarily ''heeled in" awaiting weather, ground 

 preparation, or convenience. 



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