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October . 
In October, alas, when the best is said, people are 
only waiting till the frost kills their flowers. And 
yet how very pretty our autumn gardens are, and 
how sweet the scent of the few still lingering 
flowers. 
Our chief work this month, if we have a Green- 
house, is putting our plants into it— if we have a 
spare room, or even a dry corner in a shed or tool- 
house, safe from damp and frost, quantities of plants 
or roots may even be stowed there — and the cellar 
too will often take in a few. 
I have sometimes had Scarlet Geraniums keep 
beautifully all through the winter either in a cel- 
lar or in a dry dark cupboard, like those in old- 
fashioned houses where wood is sometimes stowed 
away for burning — or they have been laid in 
heaps of sand in a corner of a tool-house or in a 
room over some stables where they are safe from 
frost. I remember particularly a sort of lumber 
room in our garden, which, though entered from 
the garden, was really over a cowhouse on the 
other side, and there whole heaps of roots- used to 
be kept safe each winter. 
The great thing is to let the roots dry gradually 
