76 MY GROWING GARDEN 



So there is great pleasure in selecting the right 

 place, either at first or when lack of prosperity in 

 growth has shown the need of a move. Such moves 

 are made any time the ground is not deeply frozen, 

 or too wet, and without relation to leafage, bloom- 

 ing or fruiting; for with the taking of trouble 

 enough, as I have previously said, anything can 

 be moved at any time. Now it is not trouble, but 

 pleasure, when a growing young plant is to be 

 more favorably located, to first prepare the hole 

 to receive it; then with two spades to get all 

 around the plant where it is, deftly loosening and 

 lifting it without baring a root; and then to 

 promptly and gently drop it in the more com- 

 fortable location, where with firming and watering 

 and shading — if needed — it goes right along with- 

 out check. 



May is the month when fruit flowers shame 

 the purely ornamental part of the garden. The 

 apricot and some of the plums have found the 

 last April days favorable for opening their blos- 

 soms, but it is in the first May week here that 

 they give us the best of the first and finest fruit 

 feast — ^that of the eyes. The cherries and the 

 peaches are great globes of bloom, and they are 

 just about shaking their snowy and pink petals 

 to the ground when the apples begin to open. 



