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manner; but in spite of being baked one 

 hour and chilled the next, the plants managed 

 to survive. The coal stove was succeeded 

 by a smokeless oil heater, which has proved, 

 except in windy and very cold weather, a 

 most satisfactory arrangement. The heating 

 question was finally settled for good by 

 running a pipe from the furnace underneath 

 the drawing room out into the glass house. 



The glass house was first furnished with 

 some stocks and cannas taken from the 

 garden, and some ferns and green-leaved 

 plants. Just a few days before Christmas 

 the first box of paper-white narcissus is in 

 full bloom, and since then the house is 

 not without a flower. Freesias, Chinese 

 sacred lilies, and more paper-white narcissi 

 follow in January, and about the middle 

 of the month the azaleas commence and 

 keep bravely on until the last of March. 

 Before the flowers of the last box of narcissus 

 wither, the early Yellow Prince tulip starts 

 in, about the 15th of February, lasting till 

 near the end of March. 



One hundred and fifty Gladiolus Colvillei, 

 planted early in January, gave dozens of 

 white and pink flowers in the third week 



