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water is satisfactory. Ifthe plants have been much disturbed 
by potting they should be shaded for a few days after. 
Bulbs for forcing should be potted in the autumn months. 
Lilies require about six-inch pots. Freesias, Tulips, and Cro- 
cus should be put several together, Hyacinths singly, and Nar- 
cissi three or five together according to size. For further di- 
rections the reader is referred to the pages on these plants. In 
potting bulbs the soil should not be packed, but simply shaken 
down, the top of the bulb always being left immediately below 
the surface. A good thorough watering or two successive ones 
must be given after potting, and the pots should be placed in a 
dark, cool place until rooted, when they should be placed in 
brisk heat in the warmest place the house affords and kept 
shaded until sprouting, when they may be gradually removed 
to light. In planting hardy plants from the ground or from 
the woods, good specimens should always be chosen, taken with 
a clump, and put into as small pots as possible without injury 
to the roots. Hardy plants are very good subjects for winter- 
flowering. The Christmas Rose, the Japanese Spirea, several 
native Orchids and Ferns, Anemones, and hosts of others, are 
both easy to grow and highly decorative in a room. 
Orchids and Bromeliads must be potted in a special way in 
well-drained pots or baskets, in a mixture of sphagnum moss 
and fibrous lumps of peat. In repotting Orchids, remove the 
plant carefully from the pot or basket, pick off all old decaying 
material, fill the pot partly with alternate lumps of peat and 
moss, put the roots in their place, and fill in the material firmly 
so as to leave the plant upright in the middle, slightly raised 
above the rim of the pot. The surface should then be trimmed 
clean by means of a pair of ordinary shears. 
In filling hanging baskets or vases with an assortment of 
