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venient to work in. One is dependent on the 
weather. They are not satisfactorily under con- 
trol. Take, for instance, one of those dark fall 
days, with a cold nasty drizzle cutting down on a 
slant, or one of those bright sunny and cloudy chill- 
winded spring days, when no pleasure is to be had 
out-of-doors. Under the shelter of your little glass 
roof, where you can make your own weather, what 
fun it is to be potting up a batch of cuttings, or put- 
ting in a few packets of choice seed for the extra 
early garden! There is nothing like it. 
