The Home Window Garden 



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one good thorough watering when planted, and were placed on a dark 

 swinging shelf in the cellar. A month later we found them bone dry and 

 no sign of top-growth except one Paper White narcissus. 



Root-growth had apparently done very well, so, after watering, the 

 entire lot were transferred to the attic, where they had subdued light. We 

 kept them moist, and 

 they began to grow in 

 a very good succession. 



The Paper White 

 narcissi were the first 

 to appear, and we put 

 them for a week or so 

 in a west window before 

 bringing them into the 

 strong sunlight of the 

 window garden. As 

 each kind came along 

 we treated it in the 

 same way, and we had 

 flowering bulbs from 

 December loth to the 

 middle of May. 

 Our Spanish iris failed 

 to bloom, though we 

 had a splendid crop of 

 foliage (which looked 

 like garlic). 



The following is 

 our stock of bulbs: 

 Twelve single Roman 

 hyacinths (pink, blue, 

 yellow, and white), two 

 S cilia Cubana, six 

 freesias, three Narcissus 

 gloriosiis, three Nar- 

 cissus Horsfieldii, four 



Narcissus Emperor, six T,, polyanthus narcissus-Narcissus Ta.etta 



