OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



another. At one time I fondly thought I 

 had solved the problem by setting the pan 

 in the middle of the lawn where the sun 

 could not get away. But I soon found 

 that would not do, for there the sun was 

 so hot that it evaporated the water off 

 the sand in half an 'hour, and after one 

 or two narrow escapes, in which my poor 

 clippings were nearly wilted past recall, 

 I was glad to return to scaffold building 

 for them in the house once more. 



But patience will have its perfect work 

 in the end if you can only hold out long 

 enough, besides which I was cheered by 

 the wayside in this experiment, by the 

 absorbing interest of pulling up the cut- 

 tings every day to see how they were 

 getting on, and so was able to keep track 

 of the whole process. It was wonderful 

 to see how the buried end of each cutting 

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