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be cut down and a few bulbs after blossoming 
may be withdrawn from the garden to ripen some- 
where else ; for if roots and leaves are not injured 
they will do very well in some sandy soil in a 
corner out of the way, where they may stay 
quietly till the leaves are dry and the roots are 
ready to be put away dry in bags. 
A few more seeds will still have to be sown, 
and a great many more plants will want to be 
planted out. Many of the plants thus planted 
will be cuttings probably that you struck in 
March or April, and kept in the window hitherto, 
and as they go out to the garden others will take 
their place. 
So I will begin at the beginning and try to ex- 
plain to you how you should strike cuttings at any 
time in the spring from March till the end of May. 
There are, you must know, two very different 
sorts of cuttings. There are the green “ soft- 
wooded cuttings,” which grow extremely quickly, 
and the harder and woodier kind, like a piece of 
Myrtle or a stem of Fuchsia, which will sometimes 
be long before they shoot out at all. 
The cuttings to plant in May (or that may have 
been planted for the last two months the same 
way) are Verbenas, Petunias, Heliotropes, Salvias, 
