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handles have been fastened, for carrots, 
oyster plant, beets and so forth, which to 
be kept in the best of condition should be 
packed in sand. 
Mulching and pruning can be left until 
the last. The winter mulch should not be 
put on until after the ground freezes, as 
it is to keep out sunshine, not frost, and 
to some extent cold winds, from the crowns 
of plants. For material, rough strawy 
manure, leaves raked up from the lawns 
or roads, or bog hay, are all excellent; 
perhaps the last is the best and the most 
convenient to use, but the leaves do finely 
if you can get a few pine boughs or 
boards to hold them in place, or run a 
narrow wire border around the bed to 
hold them neatly in place and to keep them 
from blowing. The half-hardy, such 
azaleas, the rose garden, the hardy border, 
the strawberry beds, rows of spinach or 
onions if you are keeping any over winter, 
the newly planted bulb garden—all these 
will need mulching after the cold weather 
sets in in earnest. Some roses and semi¬ 
hardy shrubs will need jackets of rye 
straw made for them and tied about them 
securely enough so that there is no danger 
of their blowing away, but these delicate 
plants are good things not to bother with 
in a climate like this. The mulch should 
be from three to five inches deep and put 
on when both the ground and the mulch 
are dry. 
There are comfortably warm days in 
November, and even into December, when, 
during the middle part of the day, you can 
find a lot of enjoyment in pruning the 
place into shape. In the fruit garden, go 
over the berry vines and cut out all the 
old dead canes and any new ones that are 
broken or seem imperfect; examine the 
currants and gooseberries carefully for 
signs of borers and cut out broken or rub¬ 
bing branches; prune the grape vines back 
more or less severely according to the 
system of growing you use—there is little 
danger of overdoing it. Roses should get 
their important pruning early in the 
spring, but mine are exposed to whipping 
winter winds, and I head in the tops of the 
tall new canes enough so that they will not 
get broken or break others. Such shrubs 
as have bloomed in late summer or fall 
may be trimmed up into shape, but the 
others you will do better to leave until 
after they are through blooming next 
season. 
The Motor Emigrants 
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