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Woi'k to be done in the Garden . 
plans for tiny greenhouses or hotbeds made of 
dead leaves ! The latter are very difficult — you 
must have such wheelbarrowfuls of leaves to be 
of any use ; but I got on much better with hot 
water contrivances, and once struck a good many 
cuttings by means of a stone bottle or two nearly 
buried in a box of sand, on which I put pots of 
cuttings. The difficult thing of course is getting 
hot water to put into these bottles ; and also there 
is the trouble of taking the pots on and off. 
Sometimes cutting and seedling pots do nicely 
in a window-sill, being put each night to stand 
upon the chimney-piece. 
March . 
March is the first of the grand gardening 
months. All good gardeners now must be ex- 
tremely active. The bees are humming busily 
on the patches and beds of the bright spring 
flowers and the Yellow Crocuses have brown bees 
hidden in them sucking out the honey or gather- 
ing stores of bee-bread. Have you ever seen the 
bees with their baskets filled, as if they were large 
