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arrives. The offsets may be planted in the vegetable 
garden, or in any convenient place where they can receive 
good cultivation, and most of them will bloom the 
second year. 
Tulips From Seed.—Tulips can be successfully 
grown in many parts of our country, from seed, but not 
profitably, because of the length of time required to 
grow them large enough to flower, which is from five to 
seven years. It is, however, a fascinating work. The 
seed should be saved from the best flowers, and sown in 
light soil in a frame, where it can be protected against 
too hard freezing, and from being washed out by storms ; 
this should be done as soon as the seed is thoroughly 
ripe. The first year, bulbs about the size of peas will be 
produced ; these must be grown on in the same manner 
as flowering bulbs, taking them up when ripe, and re- 
planting in autumn. When their time for flowering 
arrives the grower’s curiosity will be intense, and not 
without reason; his long years of patient industry are to 
be rewarded ; how well or how poorly he is anxious to 
know. Fortunate will he be if his Tulips are up to the 
average, as not one in a hundred seedlings is considered 
worthy of propagation. One thing is certain, all of 
them will be sure to please him. Then he must wait 
another series of years, from one to five, to see if his 
Tulips break into new and desirable markings. Whether 
anything remarkable has been produced or not, the 
excitement attending the effort will be enjoyable. 
Tulips in Pots.—There are no more pleasing 
bulbs for the window garden than the Single Early. 
Tulips, when well grown, as they can be with as little 
trouble as in the growing of any other class of bulbs. 
Put three in a five inch pot filled with ordinary garden — 
soil; let the top of the bulb be just even with the sur- 
face of the soil; water thoroughly, and plunge the pot 
in a cold frame, or in a convenient place in the garden ; 
