and cord. Wild flowers should be transplanted after they are 
through blooming. First remove all the larger leaves, so the plant 
will not wilt, then dig up the plant with roots and a large ball of 
soil about them. It is well to water the ground thoroughly about 
the plant before starting to dig. If the roots are injured at all in 
the lifting, cut the bruised part off. A clean cut will do little harm; 
a bruised part may decay and that might cause the entire plant 
to die. After the plant and its ball of soil are dug up, wrap it in 
moist paper, then dry paper, and pack it away in the box. Take 
only one plant of a kind. Our wild flowers are precious, and 
Nature cannot afford to give you more than one of a kind. When 
you take a plant, jot down in your note book just the conditions 
under which it is growing. Did you know that plants, like people, 
seem to enjoy growing near certain others? It is a sort of plant 
comradeship. Try to give the plant the neighbors it likes, and 
the light and shade conditions under which you find it growing. 
When the plants are gathered, be sure to place them the same 
day in your own garden. For each plant dig a hole, water this 
thoroughly, place some rich soil from the woods in the hole, and 
then set the plant in. Firm it into its new place. Water the plants 
thoroughly twice a day, morning and evening, for a week or ten 
days. If plants dry out in the first days after transplanting, they 
will not live. 
Suppose someone finds it impossible to secure a north corner 
or a very shady one for his wild flowers! What then? In such a 
case, tuck the wild flower plants here and there in your regular 
garden. Place one under a shrub, another beneath the foliage of 
some large plants. Stand off from the garden, notice the spots 
where the sunlight filters in as it does in the woods, then use these 
places for the wild flowers. Just study it out. It is a problem 
worth working over. 
There are two big things to work for in wild flower garden- 
ing: one is this, try to have one specimen of all the wild flowers 
in your locality; the other, try for succession of bloom. Succes- 
sion of bloom means to endeavor to have something blooming in 
your wild garden all the time. In March the hepatica and spring 
beauty bloom; wild geranium and dear little bluets appear in 
April; May is a month rioting in violets, anemones, wake robin, 
