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Work to be done in the Garden . 
sowing now, and these only if you like to take the 
chance of their success. 
February , 
This month we may begin to prepare the garden 
for all the summer’s show. And though the work 
at present is only digging and getting ready, and 
perhaps planting some things, we must not think 
little of it, as all the success of our garden depends 
on this being well done. 
People may fancy that, so that the top “ looks 
nice,” underneath does not matter — but that is 
indeed a blunder. The top may no doubt easily 
be smoothed over, and then what happens next ? 
Why all the loose top-soil that has been made 
“ nice and fine ” gets washed straight down by the 
first heavy rain, and there you see your plants 
with their roots all left bare. 
You must remember then that it does not 
answer to have a hard floor below and then on 
the top perhaps an inch or two of soft soil. 
You must try and make what farmers call the 
sub-soil, also light and porous — that means so far 
