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And in spite of $300 for tires, gas, oil, re¬ 
pairs for Good Fairy (I laugh whenever 
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miles a day) and nearly three hundred on 
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(To be continued) 
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The Fall Made Garden 
(Continued- from page 231) 
stops to consider the conditions which win¬ 
ter will bring. The ground freezes, super¬ 
ficially sometimes, deep at others. No one 
knows what degree of cold any given win¬ 
ter may bring, but that does not matter. 
Roots do not mind being locked in in froz¬ 
en ground ; they are prepared for that. 
The thing that newly planted roots espe¬ 
cially are not prepared for is being thawed 
out again prematurely under some un¬ 
usual warmth of the winter's sun on a 
mild day after they have once been frozen 
up. Such warmth means just one thing to 
a root: get ready and grow ! So it starts; 
only the least bit perhaps, but enough to 
make the return of cold and frost fatal to 
it, just as frost is fatal to a living green 
leaf above ground. 
Why plants newly set out are more sus¬ 
ceptible to this than those established from 
the spring preceding may seem puzzling at 
first; but when we consider that a plant 
growing throughout the summer in its 
place, of necessity sends out many new and 
deep reaching rootlets which get a very 
firm grip on the earth, and grow strong 
and mature under the advance of the sea¬ 
son, it is not so much of a puzzle. A plant 
transplanted in the fall is not so estab¬ 
lished below ground. It has had a shock, 
and consequently is not in its full vigor, 
but more sensitive to outside conditions. 
Many of its rootlets have been lost, while 
the rest cannot have acquired the grip 
upon the soil necessary for resistance. 
So all fall planted specimens must be 
mulched to keep the ground frozen. A 
light mulch may go on when the planting 
is finished, to conserve the moisture 
around the roots and shelter them from 
the sun as it shines on the ground above 
them. But the real winter mulch, six to 
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