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Work to be done in the Garden . 
The best way of planting them is to put a small 
pot of sand in the middle of one that is filled with 
mould, and then, making little holes with a short 
round stick just outside the little pot, you put the end 
of the cutting in, and press the mould firmly to it. 
You must then take care to keep the sand-pot wet, 
and that will water your cuttings quite enough. 
When these are transplanted, you gently push 
your finger or a piece of stick against the hole 
underneath the flower-pot and so make the ball of 
soil slide neatly and gently out. You afterwards 
very carefully separate the young plants and put 
them in their own pots. 
These young plants, struck either in March or 
April, will make charming things for the summer 
garden. They require light, however, till they are 
put out, and it is sometimes difficult to know what 
to do with them if we begin very early. 
However, if you have a pit or box with a glazed 
or paper “ light,” you may feel quite happy — for 
after March they do quite well in such a place — 
and you have only to be careful in covering them 
well at night. 
The hard-wooded plants generally grow, as I 
said, slowly. These do also very much best in 
sand, only the sand need not be made very wet, 
