GARDENING BY M YSELF. 2 1 / 



time, and your bulbs wait safely for the 

 spring. 



It is less easy to take care of the indoor 

 treasures, — they are so easily killed with 

 kindness. Of course they must be kept 

 from frost ; and a few tender ones, such as 

 coleus and achyranthus, like a really warm 

 room. But most common plants winter 

 best in a dreamy state of inaction, unless 

 they can have the regulated heat and moist 

 air of a greenhouse. Put geraniums and 

 fuchsias and roses and even lantanas, in a 

 frost-proof room or cellar, giving them little 

 water if they have little light, and they will 

 " worry through " the winter somehow, and 

 come out all ready for pruning and planting 

 in the spring. If you have more zonule 

 geraniums than you know what to do with, 

 set them close together in an old box, pack- 

 ing it quite full, and then fill in between 

 with earth. Or you may hang them up in 

 your cellar, heads down, with no earth 

 within sight, and they will contrive to live 

 along even so. 



