I y^ GARDENING BY M YSELF. 



for the house, nor often the new ones; but 

 some of those that have ah-eady bloomed in 

 the garden, or young offsets. For pot or 

 glass culture is said to weaken the bulb ; 

 and people who get but few new ones each 

 year cannot afford that. I like to see them 

 first in their full glory out of doors. But 

 such roots as I have mentioned — not new, 

 nor quite full-sized, give exquisite flowers; 

 though of course the spike is not so large. 



Then for another house beauty, have at 

 least one polyanthus narcissus, — nothing 

 can be much pleasanter inside your window, 

 when the snow lies deep without. Even a 

 little simple narcissus — such ^.s> Incomparable 

 — brings its yellow cup absolutely full of the 

 spring. 



Then anemones and ranunculus. And for 

 them, I must say they are uncertain ; they 

 may bloom, they may not. If everything is 

 just right, they will ; if everything is not, 

 they won 't. That is about the state of the 

 case. But if they bloom, thej^ '11 make you 

 so happy that you will go on planting them 



