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States in May. Of course, it will be understood, that 

 when the dry bulbs are placed in the moss to start, it 

 must be in a greenhouse or in some place where the 

 thermometer will average seventy-five or eighty degrees, 

 or they will not start at all, or, at least, very feebly. It 

 will thus be seen, from the foregoing remarks, that it 

 will be utterly useless to attempt to grow Tuberoses at 

 all seasons, unless in a tropical temperature, which at 

 no time should be less than seventy-five degrees, and if 

 it averages eighty degrees, all the better. 



One of the most important points in Tuberose culture 

 is to have sound bulbs of sufficient size. Figure 45 

 shows what size a good sound Tuberose should be. Figure 

 46 shows how it should be when cut through. Figure 47 

 shows the heart or center rotted, in which condition it is 

 worthless to flower. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



VIOLETS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CARNATIONS AND 

 MIGNONETTE. 



Violets are yet, and are likely to continue to be, one of 

 the important winter flowers. The price for the past two 

 years averaged higher than it has done in twenty years 

 previous, owing to the fact that in nearly all sections of 

 the country the Violet has been subject to a disease, a 

 spotting and yellowing of the leaves, which has been 

 completely destructive in a great majority of cases. The 

 cause of this disease I believe to be from the same source 

 as that affecting the Rose, Carnation, and many other 

 kinds of plants used for forcing in winter, namely, that 

 the continued high temperature necessary to produce 

 flowers is contrary to what the nature of these plants 



