CHAPTER IV 



THE SECRET OF CUTTINGS 



TN this emergency something must be 

 done, and quickly too, for I was too 

 impatient to wait a whole year for the 

 sprouting of a second crop of seeds, at that 

 stage of my education I know better 

 now, and count a year but a short time to 

 wait for any garden venture. So I con- 

 sulted again the books of the Wise Ones, 

 and found in one of them a most alluring 

 receipt for the speedy manufacture of small 

 shrubs. This florist states that if the end 

 of a tender green twig is broken off at ex- 

 actly the right moment of its career, and 

 planted with a great many others in a shal- 

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