petition to keep up standards. AYhen the old stock is .sold off 
there may be an improvement. 
Sweet Another fall bed to be made is that for Sweet Peas — do try 
Peas a fall planting of these lovely flowers. Yon will be rewarded by 
earlier, finer blossoms and stronger vines that resist the drought 
and heat, giving a longer period of flowering. Choose a well 
drained section of the vegetable garden and let the rows run 
north and south if possible. The soil should be turned over to 
a. depth of at least two feet and a width of three feet if the whole 
ground has not been worked before. Loosen the bottom of the 
row with a digging fork and work in any well-decayed garden 
refuse. Then incorporate with the poorer soil which has been 
thrown out, equal quantities of well-rotted manure, digging in 
acid phosphate at the rate of two ounces per yard of row. Bone 
meal, wood ashes or sulphate of potash will all improve the 
plants, and be sure the soil is not deficient in lime. The seeds 
may be planted from the middle to the end of November. To 
insure germination of the hard seeded varieties, soak them for 
thirty minutes in pure sulphuric acid and immediately wash 
them in three changes of water. One may try inoculating the 
seeds with "Farmogerm" (a liquid preparation, 25 cents a 
bottle) which enables the roots to find the nitrogen in the soil 
and grow stronger than thej T otherwise would. Place the seeds 
two inches apart in a two-inch furrow of clean, sharp sand; 
cover with sand and three inches of soil and make firm. As 
soon as the ground freezes, mulch the rows with rough litter to 
a depth of three inches, extending it well to both sides of the 
row. This is to prevent the ground's thawing out too quickly 
during the weather changes, but it must be taken off at the first 
sign of the breaking up of winter. This is not the trench 
method used in the spring planting. 
Frost -As t ne days grow colder we anxiously question each night, 
"Will there be a killing frost?" And each morning we rush 
into the garden to see if the worst has happened. Behold, one 
fatal day, we find the assured Zinnia quite, quite daunted; the 
brilliant Marigolds, dark and lifeless; the airy Cosmos, limp 
and dejected ; the bold Dahlia, black and unsightly ; the endur- 
ing Chrysanthemum, suffering and sad ! We are stung by the 
disorder and are seized by a virtuous frenzy that is much akin 
to the spring fever that incites us to a similar industry ; 'tis the 
vernal and autumnal burst of energy that to my mind has some 
strange association with "the Precession of the Equinoxes 
preceding according to precedent." Thus inspired, we do 
proceed to pull up and burn all the old annual stalks and. if 
possible, get the roots out of the ground and destroy them as 
well — they are reeking with insect eggs waiting for the dawn 
of a new spring to make a happy hunting ground out of your 
garden. All the Evergreens and Shrubs should be gone over 
thoroughly and the bag worms taken off. All malignant looking 
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