American homes and gardens . Beauty, artistic design andharmonious colorings arethe characteristics or ourMantels. The Mantels are reason-able m price. A catalogshowing various styles?will be mailed free. Askfor Catalog M. A* Architectural FaienceFaience Tile and Mantels ifw. THE HARTFORD FAIENCE CO., HARTFORD, CONN. FLORAL OCTOBER WORK By Eben E. Rexford IT IS not too late to move shrubs andhardy border plants. Indeed, most kinds will not have fully ripened their annualgrowth before the first of the month In mov-ing, then, do the work leisurely and plant that is not well handled w
American homes and gardens . Beauty, artistic design andharmonious colorings arethe characteristics or ourMantels. The Mantels are reason-able m price. A catalogshowing various styles?will be mailed free. Askfor Catalog M. A* Architectural FaienceFaience Tile and Mantels ifw. THE HARTFORD FAIENCE CO., HARTFORD, CONN. FLORAL OCTOBER WORK By Eben E. Rexford IT IS not too late to move shrubs andhardy border plants. Indeed, most kinds will not have fully ripened their annualgrowth before the first of the month In mov-ing, then, do the work leisurely and plant that is not well handled will be sure tosuffer, if it does not die. A little care will re-duce the chances of failure to the minimum,and probably do away with them entirely. In lifting a plant for removal, take upwith it as much earth as possible, and to makesure that it will not crumble away from theroots, apply water in liberal quantity a fewhours before you begin work. Then cut aboutit carefully with a sharp, thin-bladed spade, byrunning the tool into the ground perpendicu-larly its full length. Then lift away the soiloutside this cut. This will leave the bulk ofthe roots of the plant intact, inside an undis-turbed block of earth. When you have madean excavation all around the plant, work t
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