Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 471
sie : 1 think we d better take up your geraniumsand other window plants and put them in pots andboxes. We can then stand them under a tree,which would shelter them from a slight frost.Should there be serious danger, it would take us buta few minutes to bring them into the house. Youhave taken such… … The child was all solicitude about her pets, andafter dinner she and Merton, the latter trundlinga wheelbarrow, went down to the creek and ob-tained a lot of fine sand and some leaf-mold fromunder the trees in the woods. These ingredientswe carefully mixed with rich soil from the flowerbed, and put…
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