118 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
If you wish to keep tabs on your plantings, use a 
long stake, with place for tag at the top, in each pan 
or box. Don’t trust to your memory. 
Your bulbs will need no further care until they 
are ready to be brought in, except, on the approach 
of freezing weather, to cover the trench with leaves, 
or litter if they are kept outdoors. In four or five 
weeks bring in hyacinths and polyanthus nar- 
cissi. Von Thol tulips may be had in bloom 
by Christmas. Success will be more certain with 
the other tulips and large flowered narcissi if 
you wait until the last of November before bring- 
ing them into the house. Their growth outside will 
have been almost entirely root growth; the first 
leaves may have started, but will not be more than 
an inch or two high. Immediately upon bringing 
them in, the bulbs should be given another good 
watering, and from this time on should never be 
allowed to suffer for water. When the flower 
spikes are half developed, a little liquid manure, or 
nitrate of soda, or one of the prepared plant foods, 
dissolved in water, will be of great benefit applied 
about once a week. The temperature for bulbs just 
brought in should be at first only 45 to 50 degrees; 
after a few days 10 degrees more. In the ordinary 
living-room a little ventilation by opened windows 
will readily lower the temperature, but care should 
be taken not to expose the growing plants to any 
draft. Forcing bulbs, like almost all other plants, 
