6 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
its stems and roots. The stronger the plant, the more 
freely will it flower, providing it has proper care, and 
all that is necessary is to give it liquid manure, two or 
three times during its period of growth, with an abund- 
ance of water; it is better to set the pot, or tub, in 
which it is grown, into a larger one, when it commences 
to throw up its flower spikes, then keep the space 
A CLUSTER OF AGAPANTHUS FLOWERS. 
between the two at all times filled with water. Treated 
in this way, we have seen a plant with more than a 
dozen spikes of bloom, some of which numbered more 
than two hundred and fifty flowers. After the season 
of flowering is past, gradually withhold water, and upon 
the approach of cold weather remove to its winter quar- 
ters, where it may remain until time to put it out of doors 
