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and they may require to have a bell-glass or 
tumbler over them at first. Rose cuttings, and 
Myrtles, and Sweet Verbenas, are grown in this 
way beautifully all the summer through, and the 
common pink China Rose if you strike it now 
will most likely give you charming flowers in 
autumn. 
Later in the year most cuttings will strike well 
out of doors, especially if you shade them by a 
paper or glass “handlight;” four sides of a box 
does quite well for this with a piece of oiled calico 
nailed over the top. The hard-wooded things, like 
Fuchsias, planted in firm poor soil will often keep 
alive all the winter and shoot out well in spring. 
Pansies, Pinks, Wallflowers, some Campanulas, 
and Sweet Williams will grow very well if 
planted out of doors in a shady border, and you 
would find a mere piece of netting or calico useful 
to shade them for the first day or two — -just to 
keep away the hot sun or a drying wind. These 
will root very quickly, and when planted out with 
care they will most likely blossom soon and very 
well. 
Heartsease especially does better a great deal 
when grown from cuttings instead of being raised 
from seed. 
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