In April, after he had planted in the terra-cotta pots outside his window seedling plants of mignonette and convolvulus, he would go and give them a little pull by their leaves to make them grow faster.
En abril, cuando plantaba en los potes de loza de su salón pies de reseda o de convólvulos, iba todas las mañanas a tirarles de las hojas para acelerar su crecimiento.