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Seventh — Six or eight weeks after planting roots will be fully developed. 

 Pot may then be brought into a warm room and kept until it blooms. It takes 



4 to 6 weeks for plants to 

 bloom. 



Eighth — Leave pot in 

 soil out of doors until 4 

 to 6 weeks before bloom is 

 desired. Then bring into 

 warm room. 



E. S. Kern. 



Just as soon as ours 

 have been buried eight 

 weeks, the boys will 

 remove them to a dark, 

 cool, basement room 

 where they will remain for a week or possibly two weeks. Then 

 they will be brought gradually to the light and warmth. The 

 final forcing can be done in any living room window or in the 

 school windows. We will bring ours to full bloom in the green- 

 houses and then transfer them to the schoolrooms. 



Having had the two small greenhouses for a number of years, 

 we should hardly know what to do in our plant work were we 

 deprived of them. When I write of our winter blooming bulbs, 

 I do not wish any one to infer that we are neglecting other plants. 

 We are trying to vary the work each year and at the same time 

 hold on to all that we have found good in the past. 



I'm sure our people and our board appreciate fully what our 

 little greenhouses have 



meant to us for this 

 year. The board has 

 given us the means to 

 rebuild the green- 

 houses at Lincoln 

 School and to improve 

 it greatly. Even now 

 it is not an expensive 

 building as exclusive 

 of the heating appar- 

 atus it costs less than 

 one hundred dollars. The accompanying cuts give a fair view of 

 this greenhouse. It is built against the south side of the building, 



