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and make little forsythias and hydrangeas, and what 

 you wish geraniums, begonias?" 



"Would they grow?" 



"Surely they would grow, but you should put bits 

 of stone or crock in the bottom of the box, then a 

 little good earth." 



"What for?" 



"What for? Because the little cuttings may stay 

 in the box longer than the privets, the babies will be 

 older and will wish for more to eat than the sand. 

 Then the roots go down deeper and find it. 



"I tell you how else you can have flowers in the 

 winter that will not be trouble. You should go out 

 some quite warm day in January when the buds of 

 forsythia and jasmine, or the peach-tree or the 

 apple, begin to swell a very little." 



"As if they were just beginning to think they 

 might perhaps come out by and by ? " suggested Mary. 



"Yes, that is the time. Then you should cut some 

 branches and bring them in the house. First you 

 put them in water in the cellar, then you put them 

 where it is light, and after you put them in the 

 warm sunshine ; and soon you have the fine jar of 

 lovely yellow flowers or of pink or what you will. 

 That, also, is easy." 



