House and Garden 
growing months, June, July, August 
and to about 20th of September, never 
any real warm days and the nights are 
always cold, and we may have frost at 
any time. This year August 8 th had 
a killing frost. 
I hope to keep on experimenting in 
a small way and to eventually get a 
number of plants which are suited to 
our peculiar conditions, but it is dis¬ 
couraging to try so many of the finest 
things grown in the East and find that 
they wont do here. 
E. W. B., Evanston, Wyoming. 
The plants you mention, viz. Oriental 
poppies, peonies and bulbs of most 
any character are best moved in the fall. 
The tall perennial phloxes, when in the 
shape of divided plants should be in¬ 
cluded in the list, although many Eastern 
growers take fall cuttings, root them in 
sand, pot them and in the spring send 
out strong young plants with a good 
ball of soil at the roots, that bloom 
splendidly, giving in fact, the finest 
blooms of the plant’s career. It is 
best to move the Oriental poppies as 
soon as the foliage dies down, as it 
commences to make new leaves at once, 
which remain evergreen during the 
winter. 
Most any perennial may be moved 
in the fall if done in time to become 
established before severe weather sets 
in, and many may he removed immedi¬ 
ately after flowering if done carefully, 
but in a climate where winter sets in as 
early as it does with you, I would prefer 
spring planting. Where plants are 
moved on your own grounds—often 
with a ball- success is more certain 
at any season than where they are sent 
from a distance and become somewhat 
dry at the roots. Hybrid delphiniums 
bloom much better the first season, it 
transplanted in the spring. While it is a 
good plan to wait until the foliage is 
ripened off' before transplanting or divid¬ 
ing—because the plant is dormant then — 
it is not really necessary. Frost may, one 
year, cut back the foliage a month or 
so earlier than in other years and the 
plants do not show the effect the follow¬ 
ing spring, so we may anticipate the 
frost and cut them back and transplant. 
This applies mainly to those that have 
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