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Mr. Trommel snipped one or two protruding 

 shoots. "The evergreens do not need it but only a 

 very little. They are quiet folk. They do not put 

 the pretty dresses on and off like the flowering shrubs. 

 They get from the Mother Nature the strong, substan- 

 tial clothes, and wear the same thing winter and sum- 

 mer. When they grow in July, they only put the 

 fresh green leaves on the little new shoots j they do 

 not have new dresses every spring. There is not so 

 much cutting and fixing for them." 



"I understand," said the assistant. 



"Ah, you will make a fine gardener some day, lit' 

 tie one," he said, as they stood at the gate. "Then 

 perhaps you will have the great country place of 

 your own, and your carriage" 



"I 'd rather have an automobile," interrupted 

 Mary, giving the gate an energetic swing. 



"The noisy, rushing things ! " said Herr Trommel, 

 disapprovingly. "Well, but you will have a gardener 

 ' to plant and to oversee for you. Then sometime 

 you will say, ' Michael, you do not prune that shrub 

 right. Give me the shears. I will show you.' Then 

 perhaps you will remember the old Peter who taught 

 you how." 



The gate stopped swinging a moment "I '11 say, 



