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or end of November ; as they begin to grow, water should 

 be freely given, so that the earth may be moistened to the 

 bottom of the pot, for if stinted in water while growing, 

 the flowers will be smaller and not brilliant in color 



HYACINTHS IN GLASSES. 



Dark-colored glasses are best, the roots being impatient 

 of light. The bulb should be placed so as to barely touch 

 the water. The glasses should be put in the dark until 

 the roots reach the bottom, when they may be exposed to 

 the light. The water should be changed once a week ; 

 care also must be taken that they are not exposed to frost, 

 else the glasses might be broken and the roots to some 

 extent injured. Single Hyacinths are better adapted for 

 glasses than double ones. 



The varieties of Hyacinth are as numerous as those of 

 the Gladiolus, and it would be no help to the reader to 

 specify them by their name ; the colors embrace many 

 shades of red, blue, yellow, and white, in both the single 

 and double sorts. 



TULIPS. 



These, like the Hyacinth, have single and double varieties, 

 but the single sorts are more extensively grown, being much 

 handsomer than the double varieties. They are divided 

 into three classes: Jlizzares, having a yellow ground 

 splashed with crimson or purple ; -Rose, variegated with 

 crimson, pink, or scarlet ; and JByblomen, marked with 

 black, lilac, or purple. These classes are again divided in- 

 to "flamed " and " feathered;" the flamed having a dark 

 pointed spot, something like the flame of a candle, the 

 feathered, a dark-colored edge round its petals, becom- 

 ing lighter near the margin. The double varieties are 

 Due Van 2 hoi, red and yellow ; Gold and Scarlet Pceony, 

 Tournesol, scarlet and yellow, Purple Crown, etc. 



