BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
decorations. Frost usually finishes everything about Octo- 
ber 15. The winter temperature is often ten degrees be- 
low, and the tender plants, like Foxglove and Pansies, 
are more safely wintered under slat-frames covered with 
straw, and Larkspurs should have a light covering of leaves. 
Surely the gardens that are faithfully tended through such 
changes and chances of climate as found in this section be- 
speak the highest degree of devoted patience. 
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