80 How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



short time the leaves will begin to fall, the young red 

 shoots will take on a " water logged," purplish hue, and 

 the plants will have received a check from which they 

 will hot recover until spring, and it will require the ut- 

 most skill to bring them through alive. 



I feel that too much stress cannot be laid upon this 

 point, for the evil described is but one of several that 

 arise from the same cause. Never leave vour houses 

 without starting a fire, if you are satisfied the night 

 temperature will fall much below 60, leaving on at the 

 same time a little air, the amount of which must be gov- 

 erned by the outside temperature. 



As soon as the weather becomes cool enough to close 

 the ventilators nights, every bright mprning, as soon 

 as the sun strikes the glass, open one side a little. In a 

 half hour open another notch. Watch the day, the 

 winds and the outside temperature, as well as that in 

 the house, and continue to give more as the day 

 advances. If the sun enters a cloud for any length of 

 time and the air outside is keen, lower your ventila- 

 tors in proportion until the sun appears again. " Should 

 the wind change and blow into the house, close that 

 side and open the other at once. Do not think when 

 you have once opened the ventilators your work for the 

 day is over. During the winter months, scarcely an 

 hour will pass in which some change is not required, 

 and ever remember that eternal vigilance is the price at 

 which a paying crop is grown. 



