DISPOSAL OF GARDEN REFUSE. 
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or cut asunder with a strong knife, so that each 
divided portion shall contain a shoot or two for next 
season’s growth. In the spring, however, is the chief 
time for increasing plants by division. The garden is 
being re-arranged, and plants are moved to different 
positions. It is, therefore, not only a convenient time 
for the work, but the divided portions have the benefit 
of the increasing warmth each day, and the prospects 
of more genial weather than those divided in autumn. 
5. Layering. — Very few hardy plants are increased 
by this method. Carnations are the most popular 
example, and the process is detailed at p. 57. 
GARDEN REFUSE AND ITS DISPOSAL.— In 
small gardens near large towns, nothing is so annoy- 
ing at times as the difficulty of getting rid of the 
weeds, dead stems and leaves, grass trimmings, &c., 
that have accumulated in the course of the year. 
Very often it is a nuisance to the neighbours if 
burned, and very often also there happens to be no 
place to burn it, except perhaps on the little plot of 
grass, or on a few choice plants against a wooden 
fence. In these hard circumstances there is nothino- 
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to be done but to have the refuse carted away to some 
convenient “ shoot.” 
Although there is bound to be refuse of some kind 
in every garden, a good deal of it may be turned to 
advantage. For example, the leaves, annual weeds (if 
they have not run to seed), and the grass mowings 
might very well be stored up in some corner, and mixed 
with a little soil, not only to keep them from being 
blown about by the wind, but to hasten their decom- 
position into humus. 
