THE SECRET OF CUTTINGS 



ising and precious cuttings, which I very 

 much wished to root. What was to be 

 done ? I had not the heart to inflict upon 

 a long-suffering husband the sun-pursuing 

 operations involved in the pan method of 

 rooting, and no one else on the place would 

 have had the patience to attend to it. In 

 this emergency I remembered that in the 

 dim ages of the past, when I was a child, I 

 had seen some one root a geranium twig by 

 just sticking it into well-moistened ground 

 out of doors and covering it with a flower 

 pot. So I thought I would try reviving 

 this method. The cuttings were trimmed 

 and stuck into the soil on the shady side of 

 a large shrub, the ground well moistened, 

 and then they were left to look after them- 

 selves. On my return I found many of 

 them still fresh and green, and in the 

 course of time they took root and grew 

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