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Work to be done in the Garden. 
August. 
In August we must begin to think of the coming 
winter. 
At this time of year all kinds of plants grow 
easily, and it is a very good plan to strike a great 
many now and to keep them growing in winter while 
the old plants take their chance. Scarlet and other 
Geraniums, Fuchsias, Yerbenas, &c., all grow most 
easily just put in the ground out of doors. 
The chief inconvenience to me seems keeping 
them in winter if they are potted separately, and 
for this reason I think the best plan is to furnish a 
large flower-pot, or even a box, several inches up 
with drainage — to fill it afterwards firmly to the 
brim with poor sandy soil, and then to plant it full 
of cuttings, each sort in a pot together. 
These pots do beautifully sunk in a bed of coal 
ashes or gravel, and they may be watered every 
now and then — their flagging at first, however, is 
not of the least importance. 
It is not likely that they will grow very ac- 
tively, and if they will just keep alive till the 
spring comes round, as they do most easily if 
merely secured from hard frost, you will begin 
the next spring triumphantly with a goodly stock 
