CHILDREN’S GARDENS 
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gently pressed down with the foot on all sides. 
1 n putting in large bushes or rose-trees you 
must be particularly careful that good soil is 
packed under and round all the widespreading 
roots, so that they do not get crushed or broken 
when the rest of the soil goes on above and is 
stamped down. Hold the plant upright with 
one hand while you are pressing the soil down 
round it. If you budded any roses away from 
the garden, Michaelmas is the time to bring 
them in. Any bushes or creepers, and all the 
spring and summer flowering herbaceous plants 
which I have told you about, can be planted 
now. In short, autumn is the right time to do 
all that sort of work. 
A few seeds can be sown too in September 
for flowering in early spring, such as forget-me- 
nots, and two cheery little pink flowers, Silene 
alpestris and saponaria , besides others already 
mentioned in the lists of spring flowers. 
There is a great deal of “ tidying up ” to be 
done in the autumn, as the annuals which have 
shown their flowers so bravely all the summer 
die and wither, and after their seeds have been 
collected, they must be pulled up by the roots 
and taken away. All the tall stems of the 
perennial plants look very rough and wild in a 
bed, and should be carefully cut away, and any 
stakes used for supports must be pulled up too, 
