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— the browner and barkier the wood now becomes 
the better they will stand either cold or damp in 
winter — and early in the spring you can give them 
larger pots and nice soil to grow in, when they 
will very shortly blossom. 
September . 
It will now be shortly time for our plants to be 
taken up if we have got any that we do not intend 
to leave out. 
The cuttings, too, and young plants that you 
have prepared for window gardens will all want 
now to be potted and soon to be taken in. 
The Chrysanthemums, if you have any, will be 
ready soon to take their place in the beds, and 
they are very gay though they are autumn flowers, 
and we cannot care for them quite as we do for 
spring and summer blossoms. 
A good many seeds of annuals may be sown 
this month, in an out-of-the-way corner with a 
north aspect if possible — and on a bed of poor soil 
beaten very hard. The seeds do well in this way, 
and often blossom very early next season, when of 
course they are taken up, a spadeful at a time, and 
