186 DUTCH BULBS. 



transplant to earth, if desirable to plant the bulbs another 

 season. Water very freely. 



COLD FRAME. 



A good way, if one intends to grow many of these bulbs, 

 is to have a cold frame and sash. Let it be set on a good 

 hard gravel bottom, or some well-drained place ; then set 

 all your pots in the frame, placing over each bulb a small 

 pot inverted. Fill in all around the pots, and half cover 

 the small pot with tan or fine coal ashes. Cover up your 

 frame, and unless the plants, by becoming dry, need a 

 watering, you have nothing more to do. Suppose this is 

 done by the first of October, they will be sufficiently for- 

 ward to bring into the house about the middle of Novem- 

 ber. But as frost will not hurt them while covered up in 

 the bed, bring in a few as wanted, and thus maintain a 

 succession of bloom. This treatment does admirably for 

 all Dutch bulbs. The frame is small, and could be put in 

 any back yard. It need not be light, nor is a glass sash 

 essential ; a board cover will do. The object of the small 

 pot is to keep the ashes, ana tan, away from the bulb. 



