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using a rich soil and setting them just even with it 
and covering with half an inch of gritty sand. 
America, May and Shakespeare are three of the 
best varieties for forcing but new ones are being 
produced every year. Keep cool until a good root 
growth is made, then shift to four- or five-inch pots 
and keep in a room of 45 to 50 degrees at night. 
Caladiums. While the fancy-leaved caladiums 
require a higher temperature than most house plants, 
they will repay the extra care and heat demanded 
in cases where it can be given. Start in February. 
Cover under and over with fine sphagnum moss, 
kept moist, and give 60 degrees until the roots start, 
which they will do quickly. Then pot in rather 
small pots, using a rich, light soil, with plenty of 
leaf-mould and sand. Water sparingly at first; 
shift on and give manure water as the leaves de- 
velop. Give all the light possible without letting 
the direct sunlight strike them during the heat of 
the day. Fifty-five degrees at night is the minimum 
temperature to allow. When the leaves begin to die 
dry off and treat as for begonias. 
Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis) may be 
forced in the house where sufficient bottom heat 
can be given and they are very desirable flowers, 
possessing a grace, beauty and fragrance seldom 
combined. Get “cold storage pips”? and place in 
deep flats of pure sand. They may be stored in the 
cold and brought in as desired. Increase the 
