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ted in good garden soil and allowed to remain in the dark for six weeks or until 

 the pots are well filled with roots. If convenient there is no better way than to 

 set the pots on boards and cover all with sand deep enough to have the sand 

 six inches over the pots. A good potting soil is composed of five parts turfy 

 loam, two parts good rotted cow manure or sheep manure, two parts rotted 

 ieafy soil and one part sand. This makes an ideal potting soil for bulbs 



Put three Roman hyacinths in a five inch pot or five boilbs in a 7 inch pot. 

 Fill the put full of soil, press the bulbs down so the soil just covers them, then 

 shake the pot so as to settle the soil enough to leave room for watering — about 

 half an inch. Freesias may be planted in the same way ; six or eight bulbs can 

 be set in a five inch pot, while a seven inch pot will hold a dozen. Narcissus 

 being a larger bulb and having more top requires more space. For N. Van 

 Sion, one bulb to a four inch pot or three to a five inch pot. Paper White 

 about the same. Jonquils can be set thicker ; a six inch pot will hold a dozen. 

 This covers the bulbs that requires prompt attention to have early blooms. 

 Many of them can be had in flower at Christmas. — W. F. Gale, in Farm and 

 Home. 



A FRUIT BARROW. 



The ordinary wheelbarrow is unsuited for wheeling baskets and boxes of 

 fruit, such as plums, grapes, strawberries, etc., because of the slope of the 

 bed. The accompanying illustration shows a fruit barrow that is free from 



this objection, and one that will be 

 found equally convenient in wheeling 

 other articles that must be kept quite 

 horizontal to avoid spilling. It can 

 easily be made if one buys one of the 

 light iron wheels that are now sold at 

 hardware stores for just such uses as 

 this. — American Gardening. 



Fig 82i;.— a Fruit Barrow. 



Our Freesias had been kept dust dry in their pots all summer, and on a 

 wet day some weeks ago we had them all turned out and the bulbs picked up 

 into boxes. We are now potting off a lot of them for early blooming. We will 

 keep over about two-thirds of the biggest bulbs to be potted up later on. The 

 small and medium sized bulbs if required should all be potted or boxed up at 

 once, and allowed to start into growth early and have a long season, this is con- 

 ducive to a considerable increase in their size. The pots now filled are set out 

 on a bed of ashes beside the callas, and we shall let them stay there longer, for 

 a few degrees of frost, if their pots are plunged in ashes, etc., won't hurt the 

 tops. — Gardening. 



