Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . out the winter. Other loads of leaves go intoan open pen about ten feet square and five feet such pens, made of stout oak post and rail andupright slabs, stand side by side in the garden one newly filled has just been emptied of its two-year-old leaf-mould, which has gone as a nourishingand protecting mulch over beds of Daffodils and choicebulbs and Alstromerias, some being put aside in reservefor potting and various uses. The other pen remainsfull of the leaves of last year, slowly rotting in
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . out the winter. Other loads of leaves go intoan open pen about ten feet square and five feet such pens, made of stout oak post and rail andupright slabs, stand side by side in the garden one newly filled has just been emptied of its two-year-old leaf-mould, which has gone as a nourishingand protecting mulch over beds of Daffodils and choicebulbs and Alstromerias, some being put aside in reservefor potting and various uses. The other pen remainsfull of the leaves of last year, slowly rotting into whole-some plant-food. With works of wood-cutting and stump-grubbingnear at hand, we look over the tools and see that allare in readiness for winter work. Axes and hand-billsare ground, fag-hooks sharpened, picks and mattockssent to the smithy to be drawn out, the big cross-cutsaw fresh sharpened and set, and the hand-saws andframe-saws got ready. The rings of the bittle aretightened and wedged up, so that its heavy head maynot split when the mighty blows, fiung into the tool. Holly Stems in an Old Hedge-Row. NOVEMBER 151 with a mans full strengtli, fall on tlie heads of thegreat u-on wedges. Some thinning of birch-trees has to be done inthe lowest part of the copse, not far from the are rather evenly distributed on the ground,and I wish to get them into groups by cutting awaysuperfluous trees. On the neighboming moorland andheathy uplands they are apt to grow naturally ingroups, the individual trees generally bending out-ward towards the free, open space, the whole grouptaking a form that is graceful and highly hope to be able to cut out trees so as to leave theremainder standing in some such way. But as a treeonce cut cannot be put up again, the condemned onesare marked with bands of white paper right roundthe trunks, so that they can be observed from allsides, thus to give a chance of reprieve to any treethat from any point of view miay have pictori
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