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soil left them, and many of mine certainly did 
grow and flower. But then, in taking them up, I 
had a thing full of mud just thin enough to be 
splashy and yet pasty, and dipped the roots in 
this, so that when it dried they wore a coat of 
brown mud which kept the young fibres safe. Of 
course in replanting a large hole was made and a 
puddle of mud formed in it by adding water and 
stirring in the loose soil, and then, this hole being 
filled with earth, the roots had got around them 
plenty of food to live on while they took 
hold. 
However, if this planting is done in September 
so much the better for you. When the planting 
is done we may begin the seed-sowing, both in the 
beds and along our fence. What thorough nice 
work this is! Don’t you enjoy seeing the sun 
make a nice hazelly surface over the bed you 
have just raked, and does not the earth smell 
pleasant as you turn it up ? Nothing is so 
delightful, I think, as the spring gardening. And 
then, in a week or two, all the little seeds coming 
■up — the watering some, and the shading others, 
and the transplanting others, and earthing up 
Sweet Peas, and putting sticks to climbers or 
bringing their tendrils up to climb upon the 
