Window Gardening. 
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give them too much water. The ivater must 
ahvays he given rvith the chill off. 
A few pieces of charcoal in the water-glasses 
are very useful, and if ever you take a bulb out of 
one glass to put it into another, you can add to 
the water a spoonful of powdered charcoal, which 
will do the flower a very great deal of good. 
When the dishes stand in the window they 
should be always moved before a frosty night — 
indeed I always do put a few of mine at night 
upon the chimney-piece — though I am afraid it is 
not quite the thing. 
In replacing them in the window it is better to 
change them each day, so that one side is next the 
window one day and the other the next. But this 
is not important so that the plants do not grow 
too long. When they grow long and weak you 
may be fully certain that either the room is warmer 
than they like, or else that the plants are too far 
from the window. The nearer they stand to the 
glass the better. 
The beautiful little Cyclamen must not be put 
in the dark at all. It must have a small, well- 
drained pot filled with leaf-mould, on the top of 
which you must put the root, pressing it down a 
little and putting a little soil round it but not on 
