April. 
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.‘may keep us in, and on those days certainly we 
had better fill our flower-pots, and do shed or in- 
door work. 
Our first work in April should be sowing seeds 
.and putting out any young hardy plants. The 
Stocks and Campanulas of all things we should 
look after, because they are so pretty and so very 
bright-looking. Hollyhocks, too, if we have a 
corner where we want a tall, grand flower, ought 
to be planted now. All these young things do 
best if planted in the morning of a rather showery 
day, only if a gleam comes of hot sunshine you 
must rush to cover them up. The great thing for 
them is to prevent their flagging, and you should 
have their places ready for them before they are 
disturbed, only taking up at a time just what you 
want to plant that very minute. 
A great thing is to make the holes deep enough, 
and I dare say you have often noticed a good gar- 
dener giving a sort of twist of the trowel at the 
bottom of the hole— working up the soil in a way 
that you thought most useless. This working, on the 
contrary, makes the soil nice and light, so that the 
young tender roots can travel quickly down through 
it. In planting the seedlings you should be always 
r careful not to bury them at all deeper than they 
