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carried to the garden. Nemophila, especially, 
does beautifully in this way. 
Cuttings of China Roses should be planted still 
if we have any notion of a Rose hedge next year 
— for let it be remembered that a hedge takes 
numerous plants. The pretty little crimson China 
Roses are often full of blossom, and by checking 
their flowering and breaking off the buds in Au- 
gust and September we may get a display of 
flowers in the later months when Roses are very 
precious. I think, indeed, they are very well worth 
sheltering in the cold autumn nights and from 
the frosts of early spring by a few yards of worsted 
netting just hung loosely over them. Making 
this netting is another occupation for the lengthen- 
ing evenings — and you will be quite astonished to 
find how completely a slight thing like a net will 
preserve the trees from frost. In autumn, by such 
means we can keep flowers very long, and in 
spring the same management will give us early 
flowers. 
September is certainly a very dull month for 
gardening. There is plenty to do — but it is all 
undoing — carrying away the rubbish as one after 
another our flowers lose their beauty and by de- 
grees become mere wretched heaps of haulm. 
