SETTING OUT PEIVET CUTTINGS 127 



"The seedlings in the boxes are a lot of bother, 

 are n't they, Mr. Trommel ? " said the under-gar- 

 dener, with a sigh. 



"I think so. I rather have the perennials in my 

 garden the things you' plant the year before. They 

 will bloom for you year after year, as the shrubs do." 



"Now my privets are all ready ! " said Mary, as 

 the last cutting was laid in the flat. 



"Have you the little fellows all laid straight?" 



"Look ! " said Mary, proudly, lifting the wooden 

 flat and showing the cuttings piled as regularly as 

 if they had been asparagus stalks for the market. 

 "I did n't sqush them, and I did n't break one 

 root." 



"Prachtvoll /" said Mr. Trommel. "Now run and 

 plant them, Liebchen. I have other things to do, and 

 you are so fine a gardener you do not need that 

 Trommel show you how. Are you not now of the 

 Horticultural Club?" 



"Mary!" called the neighbor from over the fence, 

 as the wheelbarrow with its load of baby privets was 

 pushed carefully through the garden gate. 



"Good afternoon," she responded, scarcely look- 

 yig up, for the red wheelbarrow had a very precious 



