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which at a later period they most emphatically would, and it is only 

 when they are sufficiently established and " on their own " that 

 they become more and more insistent upon receiving more natural 

 conditions. They show by their behaviour that they resent a high 

 temperature and a close, oppressive atmosphere ; that, in short, 

 they positively refuse to be coddled, no matter how good may be 

 the intent. And that is the fact which carnations must never 

 ignore. 



