HOUSE AND GARDEN 
338 
November, 
I9H 
Where Winter is Only a Name 
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by the frosts. They are covered to a 
depth of four inches or so, but care must 
be taken to leave the top buds or bud 
above ground. 
Choice specimens of your hardy peren¬ 
nials of which you would like extra plants 
for your own use or to give away, may 
in most instances be easily obtained by 
dividing the clumps which have been un¬ 
disturbed for two or three years, and this 
usually will not only give you extra plants 
but better flowers; for most roots of this 
class become so dense after a few years’ 
growth that they crowd each other unduly, 
and the size and the quantity of the 
flowers are injured. As soon as they have 
become well ripened, that is as soon as the 
summer’s foliage has died down and they 
seem to be ready for their winter’s rest, 
you can take them up and divide them 
either by pulling them apart carefully or 
by using a knife, and replant the several 
sections of the crown. And while you are 
about it, put some bone dust or fine 
manure into the soil before replanting. 
This should be done as soon as active sum¬ 
mer’s growth has stopped, because, while 
no new leaf growth will he made during 
the remainder of the season, the roots will 
continue to grow and the plants thus be¬ 
come established and ready to do business 
next season. 
As I have already said, I try to make 
use of everything which the garden has 
produced. This I find means giving per¬ 
sonal attention to harvesting and storing 
the various crops, fruits, vegetables and 
bulbs. For this purpose we use three dif¬ 
ferent rooms: a cellar, a cold north room 
on the ground floor, and a big box-like 
structure built around the chimney in the 
attic. In the first we keep all those cold¬ 
blooded things such as the root crops, 
celery, onions, cabbage and so forth, that 
require a temperature as near thirty-two 
as possible without freezing; in the 
second, where the air is drier and the 
temperature can be kept from going much 
below forty at night, we keep a temporary 
supply of vegetables and our several bar¬ 
rels of apples and other winter fruits; up¬ 
stairs, where it is dry and warm next the 
chimney, are stored our bulbs of caladium, 
and our sweet potatoes—which we grow 
with success even in this northern climate. 
The other bulbs, such as dahlias, cannas 
and gladioli, are all stored under a bench 
in the greenhouse. But the root cellar is 
my particular pride; the floor is cemented 
and is as smooth as a table, the walls 
faced up with cement so that there is no 
possible place for a mouse or rat to get in. 
The walls and roof are whitewashed every 
fall before our winter supply is put in, 
and ample ventilation is furnished and 
controlled by a little chain arrangement so 
that I can regulate it according to the 
thermometer without having to go down 
into the cellar. Instead of using cumber¬ 
some and insanitary bins, our vegetables 
are stored in boxes; -slatted crates for 
onions, potatoes and so forth, and large¬ 
sized cracker boxes to which short, strong 
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