THE AUTUMN WORK 
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a ring about the bed where the heliotrope Is planted, 
and In the space formerly occupied by sweet 
alyssum. They have also been used as border plants 
to the long bed In front of the wall. When they 
have bloomed and faded, other border plants that 
are not likely to disturb the bulbs will have to take 
their places. 
Joseph has no Intention of taking up his bulbs, 
after their foliage has turned yellow, storing them 
over the summer, only to replant them again in 
the autumn. His plan Is to cut off their leaves 
when they are dead, and to follow the old-fashioned 
way of letting the bulbs remain In the ground to 
ripen and to Increase. At the end of three years, 
he will perhaps dig them all up and have their bed 
made over and enriched, although at present this 
seems a long way off. 
Joseph has planted the narcissi near the crescent 
bed at the end of the triangle. They are not in 
the bed, but behind It In the grass. There the turf 
Is not cropped close and turned Into lawn until after 
June, when the foliage of the bulbs will have died. 
It Is quite necessary to think of the foliage of bulbs 
when planting them, and to arrange that It need 
not be cut down until Its strength and life have re- 
turned to the bulb. Should the foliage of narcissi 
or tulips be cut off while fresh and green, their bulbs 
would greatly suffer. 
The daffodils have been planted in the grass in 
