The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-11

or the year gives such a true pleasure
10 the lover Of a garden In it all the
beauty Of the spring and the summer
seems to concentrate and to be intensi-
NED by apprehension Of earlv frost
Which VIII so soon turn brilliant color
~ - plackness and delightful fragrance
to sickening decay.
BUT we can do much toward wardine
OH the frost's blighting touch if we
pegln now to arrange for canvas
shelter Tor the protection of the half
marcy plants on the first cool nights
ana we can do much toward secTrine,
quantities of brilliant blooms bv fore.
ing the tender sorts that will most
quickly perish at the touch of "JacIr1s,S
icy fingers
A little forcing in the way Of digging
ABOUT the roots Of plants and keeDin9
up supply of moisture and liquid fer
liiizerS VIII give a renewed wealth Of
plooin' even among the plants that
nave seemed almost exhausted with
summer blooming, and MANY Of the
ouds that would otherwise perish dur
ing the nrst frost will thus be forced
into earlier blooming, so that their
full beauty may be enioved before tba
time of blight N--o
II Is true, perhaps, that many plants
nave not come up to our expectations
uut that was mainly due to the fact
that we did not understand their re-
qulrements, or that they did NOT find
our garden a. congenial home. We find
Ihat pants accustomed to moist and
nulind atmosphere will often perish
during our summer droughts before we
realize their need Of special care in
providing a supply OF moisture. Yet
tneSe little dlSappointments do not de-
tract from the read pleasure of the
garden. On the contrary they only
stimulate US to a knowledge Of plants
that Will in the future enable us to
make selection adapted to the soil
and situation that we NAV offer them
Now is the best time to make note
OF these failures and successes. while
they are fresh in our memory. and next
years flowers, selected by the aid or
notes taken from this years exper-
fence, will have every chance Of per
feet development, because we will be
warned by the seasons failures and be
content with the plants that are con-
genlal TO the places we have for them
And we must not neglect the house
plants now, which have, in most cases.
been kept back in order to have them
IN proper condition for the winter
bloom and beauty. The main stand
bys for winter blooming have probably
been allowed to remain in their pots
need not be disturbed and injured by
potting just before taking inside And
even the few varieties that were al
lowed season of development In the
open ground have been repotted before
this, if they have received the proper
care, so that their roots will have time
to become we'll established in the con-
fined quarters OF their pots, and they
will not have to shed their leaves and
take on that generally forlorn appear
ance so often noticed in the house
plants that are ported late in the fall
But there is still time to take up
many beauties in the garden beds, that
still have several months of blooming
in store for us, If we can save them
from the frost. And now our trouble
commences. What shall we take up?
What shall we leave? We have heart
room for every plant in the garden,
but house-room for very few. AS we
walk through the garden it is easy to
imagine that the plants know our
thoughts, and realize that their pale
horse" frost is near; and thy seem
with one voice to cry out: Take me;
take me; put me anywhere that / may
not perish. We cannot turn q deaf
ear to their appeals; neither can we
care for more than one-half the beauti-
full plants that must perish unless taken
into the house. Right here should
come to us thoughts of the floral mis-
sion work, that can be so beautifully
carried on by the aid of potted plants.
to be taken to the bedside Of the sick
and the "shut-ins," who will appre-
ciate them even more than the mission
blossoms of the summer months.