MAKING A KOSE GAKDEN 61 



but his habits are not very good. It is not often he 

 grows to be a fine plant." 



The under-gardener was already down on her 

 knees at the edge of the bed. "Make the hole 

 here ?" she inquired, thrusting in the trowel, and then 

 shaking back her curls to look at the old man. 



He nodded approvingly. 



"Very deep, so the roots will have plenty of 

 room," explained Mary, as if she were conducting a 

 field class, while working industriously with the 

 trowel, "and spread the roots out just the way they 

 were before, very carefully, because he is asleep ; 

 and you hold him with your left hand, so, and push 

 the dirt in with the other, just as if you were potting 

 a little bit of a plant " 



"Wait, wait, let us see," said Herr Trommel, sud- 

 denly interrupting the discourse. "Have you him 

 deep enough so that the earth will come over the 

 graft? Yes? That is right," he said, peering into 

 the hole. "If we have not that little knob covered 

 up he will 'sucker,' and that is a bad thing for the 

 graft to do." 



"What is 'sucker'?" asked the assistant. 



"You remember what I told you when we were 

 grafting? " 



