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remove the awning, and fully expose the plants to ripen, always 

 being careful to dress away all the seed-pods before seed is formed in 

 them. This will materially assist the swelling of the bulbs. Take up 

 the bulbs as soon as the leaves are yellow, and spread them out to dry 

 in an airy shed, where the sun cannot reach them. Sunshine is most 

 destructive in its effects on newly-lifted bulbs. When thoroughly dry, 

 detach the offsets and any loose skin, and store away in paper bags, 

 with the name of the variety written in ink on the bag. If the bags 

 used are stout brown paper, they ought to have their sides perforated 

 to admit air. Occasionally overhaul the bulbs, and remove decayed 

 ones, to prevent them communicating disease to others that are sound. 



The following assortments are dissimilar, and superior late show 

 kinds : — 



Bizarres. — Heroine, Uranie, Hector, Fleur de Parade, Couronne 

 Imperiale, Lucifer, Pallas, Lievin Bauwens, Due de MalakofF, Due de 

 Russie, Trafalgar, Shakespeare, Cavaignac, La Xubile, Tromperie, and 

 Pluton. 



White grounds striped with violet. — Burrhus, Demonis, Othello, 

 LTnapproachable, Jacqueline, Madame van Houtte, Oswald 4® Lille, 

 Blondin, Belle Virginie, Mina Hortensia, La Ville de Louvain, Rem- 

 brandt, Ma Confidente, Ma plus Belle, Globertine. 



White grounds striped loith rose. — Goliath, ISToemi, Lord Clyde, 

 Reine d'Egypte, La Circassienne, Marie-Louise, Vesta, Magnolia, La 

 Beaute, Andromeda, Fortune, Mmrod, Surprise de I'Amateur, Leo- 

 nard, Feu Brillant, Sophie, La Sultane, and Vesuvius. 



Early Tulips for ]pot-adture. — Before proceeding to give a list 

 of these, I think they deserve a few remarks in a cultural sense, 

 although all those who have forced Hyacinths will be intimately 

 acquainted with the mode of early Tulip-culture, in and out of pots. So 

 we shall not direct our remarks to them, but rather to those persons 

 requiring the information. 



Some of the early Tulips are not at all stubborn, but are easily 

 forced when not too suddenly and severely pressed by fire-heat. 

 Above every consideration, allow the double-flowers to fill their pots 

 with roots, and become acquainted with glass shelter, before putting 

 into 60° of atmosphere-temperature. Tournesol, both the striped and 

 the self-yellow, are the least shy. Avoid a too sudden transition from 

 cold to heat in the early forcing period — but it is much better to pro- 

 ceed quietly, when one is not pressed for early flowers. It is of the 

 greatest importance to early forcing to get the bulbs home as soon as 

 they are imported, and have those wanted first in bloom potted with- 

 out a day's delay, and put under the protection of glass, but without 

 applying artificial heat for the succeeding six weeks. Water moderately, 



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