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Work to he done in the Garden. 
well. In spring, however, nice rich soil does 
best — only, ivhatever you soiv , you must alivays 
firm the soil first ; patting it down with a spade 
or pressing it with a saucer. If you don’t do this 
your seeds will not grow well. 
When we have a garden with a rustic fence, one 
of our earliest cares, when fine March weather 
comes, should be to set plants to cover it, and 
where we have not plants enough, to make up 
the want by seed-sowing. Most plants will bear 
moving now if we give them water enough and do 
not disturb the roots ; but still if it is possible to 
get shrubs moved in September, October, No- 
vember, or even sometimes December, it will be 
a great deal safer and they will grow more 
quickly. 
If, however, you have only lately got your 
garden or have a chance of getting some nice 
shrub for it, you must be ten times the more 
careful not to disturb the soil in which it grows, 
and when you put it in the ground you should 
pour in a quantity of water and make quite a 
puddle. 
I have planted Roses and such things in March 
— on going to a new house — -and even some that 
had to travel a long way, when they could have no 
