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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
making some holes with a crowbar, three 
round each clump, and pouring water down 
the holes, and then mulching lightly with 
peat moss. Phloxes are the first to suffer from 
dry weather, but these kept their freshness and 
beauty when all else was dried up in the other 
borders. 
In order to prolong the season of flowering, 
or to get flowers for exhibition that were 
over long ago in the ordinary garden, it is the 
practice of the nurseryman to replant some of 
his stock in March or later ; and this plan 
might be followed with advantage by others. 
Pyrethrum, for instance, if moved in April, will 
have its flowering delayed at least a month ; 
and no doubt many other perennials, if fibrous- 
rooted, could be treated in the same way, and 
their period of blooming considerably extended. 
To provide a succession of bloom is the 
great difficulty in the way of those who wish 
to see their borders always gay, and is one that 
is not always overcome. A first-class gardener 
once refused a place with very high wages, 
because he was told he would have to keen the 
a 
herbaceous borders a mass of bloom for six 
months of the year. He said that it could 
not be done unless he were allowed unlimited 
glass, under which to bring things on in pots, 
