Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . wedesire. For if the frost can be kept in, after ithas taken possession, there will not be that fre-quent alternation between freezing and thawingwhich does the harm to the plant. For it is notfreezing, understand, that is responsible for themischief, but the alternation of conditions. Thesecause a rupture of plant-cells, and that is whatdoes the harm. Keep a comparatively tenderplant frozen all winter and allow the frost to bedrawn out of it gradually in spring, and it willsurvive a season of unusual cold. The sameplant will be
Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . wedesire. For if the frost can be kept in, after ithas taken possession, there will not be that fre-quent alternation between freezing and thawingwhich does the harm to the plant. For it is notfreezing, understand, that is responsible for themischief, but the alternation of conditions. Thesecause a rupture of plant-cells, and that is whatdoes the harm. Keep a comparatively tenderplant frozen all winter and allow the frost to bedrawn out of it gradually in spring, and it willsurvive a season of unusual cold. The sameplant will be sure to die in a mild season if leftexposed to the action of the elements, because offrequent and rapid changes between heat andcold. Whatever covering is given should be left onthe beds as long as possible in spring, because ofthe severely cold weather we frequently have atthe north after we think all danger is over. How-ever, as soon as the plants begin to make muchgrowth, this covering will have to be a cold night comes along after this has been. THE BULB GARDEN done spread blankets or carpeting over the them from resting on the tender growth ofthe plants by driving pegs into the soil a shortdistance apart, all over the bed. The youngplants may not be killed by quite a severe freeze,but they will be injured by it, and injury of anykind should be guarded against at this season,if you want fine flowers. Holland Hyacinths should receive first consid-eration, because they are less likely to disappointthan any other hardy bulb. There are single anddouble kinds, both desirable. Personally I pre-fer the single sorts, as they are less prim andformal than the double varieties, whose flowersare so thickly set along the stalk that individual-ity of bloom is almost wholly lost sight of. Theyare, in this respect, like the double Geraniumswe use in simimer bedding, whose trusses ofbloom resemble a ball of color more than any-thing else, at a little distance, the sugg
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