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The home garden (1917)

Seymour, Edward Loomis Davenport, 1888- [from old catalog], American seedtape company. [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Arranged and printed for the American seedtape company, by the Country life press · leaf 38

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aluable practices in theretention of soil moisture and the resulting stimulation ofplant growth. The second object of mulching is to protect half-hardyplants from changes of temperature in winter. This doesnot mean keeping them from freezing, but rather from thealternate thawing and freezing that… … 36 THE HOME GARDEN mediate use, but that if thawed in the sun, then allowed tofreeze, then thawed again, it not only becomes unpalatablebut soon rots. It is the same with growing plants and newlyplanted shrubs, trees, etc. As fall comes on the groundshould be permitted to freeze good and hard,…

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