February . 
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pretty blue flowers in another dish immediately. 
Sometimes such things look very pretty indeed 
growing in little crevices on a heap of rock-work 
which is covered with creeping moss. 
You can this month begin to sow a few seeds in 
pots. But March is the great time for this, and I 
think you may well content yourselves with making 
all things ready for the grand sowing then. To 
fill a set of flower-pots, take first pieces of broken 
charcoal, then a handful of moss for each put upon 
the charcoal, and then, filling up with soil and 
pressing it gently down, leave it to wait for sowing- 
day. The soil should be moist but not really ivet ; 
of course you know that when it is very wet the 
proper thing to do is to stir in dry soil with it 
before you use it. 
But how do you mean to raise your “ tender 
annuals ” and to strike your cuttings ? If you do 
not possess a regular heated Plant Case suitable 
for the purpose, and if you have not got a little 
greenhouse-room or a hotbed corner you will have 
to contrive. 
For my part, I think nothing is like contrivance. 
It is so nice to be able to make the things that we 
want ourselves, and to see our own plans answer- 
ing. When I was a child I was always making 
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