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Work to be done in the Garden. 
begin to grow, and bear both air and water. It is 
quite a mistake, I think, to cut off the ends of the 
leaves. It looks very ugly and does not a bit of 
good. It is a good plan to plant a few pipings in 
small pots singly, because these will often make 
such nice plants for windows, and the Carnations 
are charming for blossoming at all seasons. If, 
however, you have not got a hotbed, the next best 
thing to do is to get a small bed ready of rich soil 
deeply dug, and then to mix with it a fair quan- 
tity of sand and to pour water on it till it beats up 
into quite a puddle. The cuttings then (peeling 
off the lowest leaves) are stuck into this mud, 
and the hand-glass, or bell-glass, or paper-covered 
frame being put on at once, they are not again 
uncovered for a good many days — when they 
generally are found growing, and are then by 
degrees accustomed to the air. 
The cuttings that were potted early may often 
by this time require larger pots to blossom in in 
the winter, and any Geraniums that blossomed in 
the summer and were cut down afterwards will 
now have begun to shoot, and will be greatly bene- 
fited by potting in small pots and in the poorest 
soil, a day or two after which they had better be 
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