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frame, say, or where there is not convenience, covered with 

 ashes, — they may be drawn from in such numbers as you are 

 likely to want in flower at a time, and they may be taken 

 into the forcing-house at once. ^Tien they have been in the 

 dark six weeks, let them be removed from the dark frame or 

 from the stuif they are covered up in, the pots cleaned and 

 placed all in a cold frame, but a light one, and every fortnight 

 there may be some of them put into the forcing-house to keep 

 up a succession. The same rule must be observed as to cool 

 night temperature as we mentioned for roses ; but, as the 

 rose-house is the best for them, or rather, as the treatment of 

 roses is alike good for anything that ought not to be drawn 

 up weakly, the same houses will do for all sorts of flowers, 

 bulbs included. As by the time the first bulbs are out of 

 bloom the open ground is too cold for turning out, let the 

 pots be placed together on the floor of the greenliouse, under 

 the stage, or anywhere secure from the frost, and not damp. 

 Those which come after, and indeed all bulbs in May, should 

 be turned out into the open ground; where they will fre- 

 quently ripen their seed if wanted, and in some measure 

 improve their bulbs. But, if the foliage turn yellow in the 

 pots before they are turned out, let them dry off at once, and 

 save them for another year, bagging them for the rest of the 

 year till planting time. 



GROWmO PLAINTS FOR HOME DECOEATION AND 

 EOE EXHIBITION. 



The great difference between these two occupations will 

 hardly be anticipated. There was always an opposite mode 

 of treatment required in many particulars ; but the system of 

 showing has become so widely opposed to judicious manage- 

 ment at home, that gardening for "the home" and "the 

 foreign department," as we may call it, affect us like two 

 different sciences. The necessary preparation for transmission 

 from one place to another, and constant jumbling about, has 

 converted all our natural plants to artificial ones. Not one 

 production in a hundred is shown in its natural form. We 

 can excuse this, when we remember that plants have to be 

 taken for miles, jumbHng up hill and down dale, over rough 

 roads and stone streets, before they get to their destination, 



