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tire of its seclusion and begin to grow ; 

 stretching itself up, reaching towards the 

 sunshine which comes glinting through the 

 paper cone and tells of the wonderful world 

 beyond. And once in fair progress, the 

 cone may be taken off and the aroused shoot 

 left to itself. 



Bulbs in the house are much more likely 

 to suffer from heat than cold. This is true 

 of almost all house plants. Yet some few 

 like the heat ; and it now and then happens 

 that a young seedling, or delicate just- 

 rooted cutting, gets chilled. A keen wind 

 sifting in through the window, a sudden 

 change of weather, a neglected fire, may 

 bring this about ; and then the little plant 

 droops and hangs its head, and looks un- 

 mistakably forlorn. In such cases I have 

 found nothing so good as setting the plant 

 at once in a very warm place. Sometimes 

 on a high shelf in a stove-heated room, 

 sometimes on the hearth before our open 

 wood fire, I have placed the chilled things ; 

 and presently, leaf by leaf, they would re- 



