If your seed bed or nursery is in a position exposed to the 
wind, I find that a few boards placed to windward of the 
plants protects them excellently. Pinks, Heuchera, Nepeta, 
Fox-gloves and Columbines do not like to be covered at all in 
my walled garden by the sea, but then they are in a sheltered 
location. Phlox, Aconite, Japanese Anemones are better for 
a light covering. 
Delphinium, of course, must have mounds of sifted 
coal-ashes about a foot in diameter over each plant. Even the 
little seedlings in the cold frames must have this insurance 
against slugs. They are one of the hardiest plants. 
Irish Junipers should have the branches tied up lightly 
to the main trunk as they are susceptible to breakage by wind 
and snow. 
I had to leave my garden for the season on October 1st this Wreckinq 
year, when it was at its very best. The day I left I cut off and the 
threw far away in the open field the heads of Eupatorium Garden 
ageratoides, Michaelmas daisies, Phlox, Echinops and Feverfew 
which were just seeding, otherwise when I return in the 
spring, the beds would be overgrown with masses of their 
little seedlings. This precaution has served a double purpose 
for the Asters and Eupatorium have naturalized themselves ' 
delightfully out side my walls. 
Also, on the day we part, my garden and I, I am very generous 
with roots of Boltonia, Helenium, Campanula [glomerata and 
rapunculoides) , Oenothera, Asters, Monarda and Phlox, giving 
them away to any neighbor who will take them, for if I do not, 
they are a tangled mass next spring and have crowded out my 
choicer perennials. 
Michaelmas daisies (hardy Asters) do so much better if Michaelmas 
divided every year. Each little sprout should be planted a foot Daisies 
away from its brother. This is especially true of that valuable 
pinkish variety. Si. Egwin, which makes a round bush three feet 
in circumference, if treated to space and manure. Boltonia 
and Helenium should also be treated in this drastic way. One 
year I was doing over my beds in the fall and ripped out every 
plant of this necessary trio in October, heeling them in in rows 
in the vegetable garden. Early next spring I reset the healthy 
young shoots in my borders and I was rewarded by a superb 
growth and radiant bloom. 
It is perfectly safe to heel in hardy shrubs, roses and the Heeling in 
larger perennials for the wnnter, if they come from the nurser- Belated 
ies too late to plant in their permanent locations. Select a well Stock 
drained position in the vegetable garden and have a deep 
trench dug, lay your hardy stock in a slanting position, cover 
well with dirt, leaving only the tips of the branches exposed. 
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