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THE AUTUMN WORK 
dens. Miss Wiseman has now many men at work 
doing this for her. Yesterday I noticed that, be- 
fore setting the plants, the men often put a spade- 
ful of manure In the bottom of the holes. In fact, 
each man. In addition to his tools, had a wheelbar- 
row full of this stuff somewhere near. Much rich- 
ness of soil Is necessary to make flowers large and 
strong; and who would wish to save manure at the 
expense of having small and puny flowers? Miss 
Wiseman would give us some of the perennials she 
has divided this autumn, but Joseph thinks we have 
a sufficient start, and wishes to let our garden 
Increase Itself. From now on, he Is going to be 
very careful about taking In new plants. He pre- 
fers to have many of a few kinds well massed than 
to have a few strange, lonely ones here and there. 
We are delighted, however, with some plants 
that Miss Wiseman has given us, particularly the 
lilles-of-the-valley. We had not thought of them 
until Miss Wiseman sent us a large quantity of the 
pips to set out. The bed for these flowers, and 
that for the white peonies, are In fact the only new 
ones we have made this autumn. 
We planted these lilies between the rosarium and 
the wood-border. There the lilies will have the 
shade they require, and we can see them from the 
garden seat as well as the roses. When Timothy 
prepared their bed he first dug out the soil for about 
two feet, put at the bottom some old manure, and 
filled the hole up with rich, fine earth, through which 
