September . 
S3 
The work of planting the earliest spring bulbs 
must not, however, on any account be forgotten. 
The Crocuses and Snowdrops, in fact, do best all 
the year in the ground, and so do the Narcissi, 
and the Daffodils, and the Lilies. I don’t expect 
that any of these flowers get taken up each year 
and put in again in the fields, and yet I am sure 
they thrive extremely there. In cases like these 
it is always best to keep as nearly as we can to 
what w^e see is natural. 
This principle it is partly which makes the 
science of Horticulture grow so very rapidly — • 
people watch continually all over the world new 
habits of special plants ; and as we learn what 
are their natural habits we are taught very plainly 
how we may grow them best. 
It is, however, generally a good thing to take up 
bulbs sometimes, because some new bulbs come at 
the side, and some below, and others above the old 
ones, and then it is awkward to have the patches 
of Crocuses walking about the garden, changing 
their places every year a little. 
This month, I ought to observe, is a good time 
to make edgings. You fasten a line quite tightly 
straight along and then cut, as it were, a tiny 
ditch all along beside it — working from the line. 
