THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



weather has been. Place the boxes which are to hold them in 

 a cold dry cellar where there is no danger of freezing, and yet 

 where the furnace heat cannot reach them. Line them with 

 clean newspaper, and fill to a depth of two or three inches with 

 live sand, fresh from the pit. It is not necessary to dry the 

 sand, unless it is soaked by a recent rain. It will dry very 

 quickly, and if clean, cannot rot the roots. Place the clumps 

 as close together as possible, and cover entirely with sand. Be 

 sure that the boxes are deep enough so that it is not necessary 

 to heat the sand to cover every tuber. The sand will some- 

 times cake when it dries. In about a fortnight run the fingers 

 down among the tubers and see that it lies in between them 

 all, and fill in with more if it has settled. After that the tubers 

 may sleep all winter undisturbed. 



Henrietta M. Stout 



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