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Just before you leave, put your house plants in the bathtub, water them well, and cover them with polyethylene sheeting. they will keep moist this way for three weeks and will not suffer too much from loss of light, for most bathrooms are bright enough. Snip off all the seed pods from lilacs. potentilla and other flow- ers. This will make the garden tidy when you return, and also ensure bigger and better blooms next year. Old iris flower stems may be cut right back to the leaves from which they emerge. You can now make new sow- ings of vegetables such as corn, carrots, leaf lettuce, radishes and green onions. These will give you succulent fare for the salad bowl at a time when plants from ear- lier sowings would be too mature. These vegetables will all be grow- ing when you get back from your holiday. For mulching your vegetables you could use some black polye- thylene plastic between the rows. This will prevent the germination of most weed seeds and will en- sure a nice clean vegetable gar- den for the rest of the season. Your biggest task is the eradi- cation of weeds in the garden be- fore you leave. This is a most necessary operation. because a good weeding now will eliminate the seeding that will occur if the weeds are left to flower. After a thorough weeding, you could apply a mulch such as peat moss or pine needles, which will preirent other weeds from grow- int/and also keep your soil moist until you return. While in the sowing mood, sow fast-growing annuals to cover bare spots produced by the re- moval of tulips or the dieback of perennials like oriental poppies. Seeds of sweet alyssum, mari- If the hedge hatrn't reached the height you want, prune it lightly by cutting off the ends of the new shoots. If it has reached the dimensions desired, prune back to the base of the new growth. Trim the new growth on ever- green hedges, such as yew and cedar, for they have just about completed their summers growth. If this task is left until you get back, the growth will be so ex- cessive that cutting will be diffi- cult, and after it is finished you will have a brownish, uneven hedge. Before going on vacation in 'August, take care of the follow- tng jobs: These gardens include only early and late-spring flowers and rely upon shrubs to give late summer and fall color. Of course, the glory of many late.. summer and fall pictures met be tiitcrificed to achieve this end. Many gardeners, 'very wisely, gear their gardens to midsummer neglect by planting only those materials that need a minimum of care and by choosing a land.. scape plan that makes gardening easier during the s u m m e r months. Most of us try to get all these midsuinmer chores done in early July and trust that, these will carry the garden over until we return from our annual vacations. " A. I. 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