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GARDENING. 



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«0W I GROW flMflRYLLIS. 



Late in the 60's a neighbor bought 

 some bulbs of A. Johnsoni. It was her 

 practice to plant them in theborderevery 

 spring and lift and pot them in the fall. 

 It happened in the autumnof ISJ^or'?;-!, 

 that in lifting, one bulb was cut in two at 

 right angles to its height and about 

 through the middle up and down; the 

 pieces lay in the sun all day and late in the 

 afternoon were given to my mother with 

 the remark "I haveheard that they would 

 grow, try them." Both pieces grew. 

 Since then the culture has been to keep 

 the earth in the po's moist at all times, 

 never allowing the bulbs to dry off. 

 When budding and blooming water is 

 given very freely. Every fall the offsets 

 arc removed and potted (they always 

 root and thrive) any soil that is shaken 

 off in removing the offsets is replaced, 

 about an inch of the top soil is taken oft' 

 and an equal quantity of good rich earth 

 put in. Thev are grown two to three in 

 a (l-inch pot." The pots stand in a little, 

 south-front room where the artificial 

 temperature ranges about »>6° during the 

 dav and ten to fifteen degrees lower at 

 night. The house is heated by a furnace 

 and is less than half a mile from Lake 

 Michigan. Under the above treatment 

 they are never diseased; they give as 

 main- as five blooming periods in two 

 years, two to three flower stalks at a 

 time to each bulb and produce offsets in 

 abundance. W, H. R. 



The Rookery. Chicago. 



SiREPTOc.\RPi'S Wendlandii is a won 

 dcrfullv fine greenhouse plant, bearing 

 only one leaf, and several scapes of pretty 

 bluish flowers from midsummer till fall. 

 Hut the one-leaf awkwardness of the 

 jikint is overcome if three or more young 

 plants arc potted together and so 

 arranged that the leaves all point out- 

 ward and about equi-distant. It is prop- 

 agated from seed. 



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