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tration power to stimulate it to perform its 

 functions. 



I find now that it is an extraordinarily reliable 

 calculating machine, and when I entrust prob- 

 lems to it, which I can not solve by the exercise 

 of thought and will at the moment, it works them 

 out and gives me the solution of its own accord, 

 after an interval in which I have not bestowed a 

 moment's conscious thought upon the subject in 

 hand. In youth the difficulty usually seems to be 

 to sustain the effort of will necessary to promote 

 concentration. In mature age neither effort nor 

 concentration is required, as the machine has 

 worn down its bearings and runs smoothly with- 

 out constant watching. This, at least, is my in- 

 dividual experience; but I am quite prepared to 

 admit it may not be universal, or even general, 

 and may vary with every different constitution 

 and temperament. 



I wish I knew what I ought to do to my Lilium 

 Giganteum; whether anything should be done to 

 those that have not flowered, or whether the one 

 which has flowered should be disturbed and the 

 new offsets, which should be found clustered 

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