your bulbs in a draining layer of crocks or sand 

 and to keep so now and then your receptacle 

 slanting, to pour off the superfluous water to 

 prevent rotting. 



We can expect results if we start, say in 

 October - if we are lucky at Christmas time, 

 but certainly we can have flowers indoors during 

 January, February and the first weeks of March, j 

 We can prepare our glasses, bowls etc., in relays 

 not all at the same time, and get therefore a 

 succession of flowering bulbs. 



Simultaneously we can prepare our flowerpots, 

 pans, boxes etc., for forcing partially out and 

 indoors. Fill your receptacles very loosely with 

 sifted soil, not previously used for growing bulbs 

 in, and press your bulb in it so far that only the 

 very top shows. Press with your thumb the soil 

 firmly down round the oulb, and fill up the open 

 space up to the edge of the pot. Dig a shallow 

 trench about 4 in. deep in your garden, as much 

 as possible out of the sun, and put your pots 

 etc., at the bottom. Fill up your trench till there 

 is about 4 inches soil on top of your pots, and 

 cover end November the little mount with straw, 

 leaves, or peat. Inspect, so now and then your 

 bulbs, and bring the first most advanced ones 

 indoors from the middle of January onwards. 

 Before you cover your pots, soak the soil well, 

 and of course, put crocks at the bottom of the 

 trench and in the pot. The same kind of bulbs, 



mentioned for fibre forcing can be used for this 

 purpose, but do not take Darwin, Breeders or 

 generally late tulips. Your florist or else your 

 bulb grower will tell you what to use. In the 

 trade are specially prepared hyacinths for forcing 

 purposes. With this kind one gets even earlier 

 results. 



Forcing of Bulbs in the 

 warmhouse. 



We start in tne same way as described 

 previously about potting in soil. After taking the 

 pot out of the trench we bring it in the warm- 

 house and keep it there in a dark place till the 

 flower buds apear. The temperature of the house 

 should be kept at 65 70 Fahrenheit. When 

 one sees the flowerbuds put the pot in very 

 subdued light and bring gradually the plant in 

 stronger light. Everybody who has worked in a 

 greenhouse will know how to act according to 

 the different circumstances. In this way it is not 

 only possible, but quite certain that one can have 

 a fine display of flowers at Christmas time. The 

 following tulips give a splendid result: all the 

 Due van Tholls, Mon Tresor, Proserpine, Brilliant 

 Stcr and Rose precoce. 



For half January we recommend: Fred Moore, 

 Cramoisi brilliant, Lady Boroel, La Reine, Prince 



29 



