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Show iDD BEAUTY TO WINTER GARDEN Us garden should be rated Attn oi all material which may (jrry plant diseases, weed seeds, sf which may harbor mice or inset in-set pests, J. C. Hogenson, exen-jico exen-jico agronomist of the Utah Staro Agricultural college says. The gar-fien gar-fien should then receive a liberal coating of well rotted manure. Tlus material should be plowed or spaded under this fall so that de -composition will go on during the winter and early spring. Now is the time to look over the garden to no e which perennial plapts are in the wrong places and , to make amends for your earliei planting mistakes. Some" of the perennials may have grown too tall and hid the smaller ones growing behind. Some shrub may have grown more bushy than juu expected and is occupying too much space. These mistakes may now be corrected and plants a".d jfcrubs put in their proper places. Now that most of the leaves have fallen, notice what spots are bare and would be more bean' if nl by the planting of an evergreen t add its dark greenery all winter ; long. Often there is a place opposite oppo-site the living room window that eould well accomodate a spruce or jjoirjer. Those women who hava nothing to see from their kitchen lindWs in winter, but snow, bare fences or sheds, woodpiles and garages, should mark a place now where a conifer will give them a patch of verdure during the winter. This will add to the beauty of the quiet, peaceful scenes in your winter win-ter landscape. |