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THE HOME GARDEN. 
Another account is given of raising cuttings and seeds, 
for out-door planting in mild weather, in an old wash- 
boiler, placed in a sunny kitchen window, and resting on 
two inverted flower-pots. Old iron baking-pans, filled with 
clean creek sand, were placed across the boiler, which had 
been filled with water at about 90°. A safe kerosene lamp 
was lighted and placed under the boiler, and kept burning 
all the time, while cuttings and seeds were planted in the 
moistened sand above. 
Early flowers and vegetables were thus raised with very 
