The Magic Touch 49 



of a mystery; a sort of a "black art" that has 

 hung over from the Middle Ages ; that only those 

 in the magic circle are entitled to acquire, as 

 the result of a lifetime of patient practice. 



Don't you believe any such thing! If you 

 have been successful with your flowers and vege- 

 tables outside, so that you know in general what 

 plants need to keep them happy and contented, 

 you can be successful with under-glass propagation 

 of a great variety of flowers the first time you try. 



How to do all this may be learned from the 

 following pages alone. But, better yet, if there 

 is a greenhouse near you, where you can get the 

 owner or the gardener to show you how to handle 

 cuttings and plants from seed, take advantage of 

 the opportunity. 



The best way to see how to do a thing is to see 

 how it is done. There's no argument about that ! 



Well, to start at the beginning, I don't know 

 of any better way than to tell about what we 

 did in getting ready to fill that empty house. 

 I had never had much experience making plants 

 from plants up till then. I never found any 

 work more fascinating; and since then, though 

 I have made many thousands, the fascination 

 remains as great as ever. Just what there is 

 about it that so fascinates I really do not know, 

 but somehow it seems as though one could pat 



