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BULBS FOR THE WINTER 



WINDOW-GARDEN 



ANY a flower-loving 

 woman who passes the 

 shops of the florists in 

 our great cities, along 

 about holiday time, can 

 not resist the temptation 

 to pause before the win- 

 dows in which Hyacinth and Tulip, Lily and 

 Narcissus, vie with each other in making the 

 place look like fairyland. Always the longing 

 comes to possess a bit of this lavish display of 

 beauty for the home. But the wish gives way 

 to the thought that such beauty is not for the 

 amateur florist. The growing of bulbs for 

 winter flowering must be left to the profes- 

 sional florist. There is — there must be — a 

 "knack" about it which the ordinary person 

 can not hope to master. 



Here is where a great mistake is made. 

 There is no *' knack" of any kind, using the 



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