Cultivation of Bulbous Roots. 403 



To these may be added Narcissus bulbicodium, and Na?'- 

 cissus poeticus with its numerous varieties. 



Of Jonquils, Snowdrops, and Snowflakes, there are but 

 the single and double varieties of each, and of the Winter 

 Aconite, but the one sort. Of this, but one root should be 

 put into a six-inch pot, and it should then be placed in a sun- 

 ny exposure. 



The Persian Cyclamen and its varieties requires a compost 

 composed of equal parts of fresh loam, leaf mould, or black 

 earth, and well rotted dung, to which should also be added a 

 little sand. The corm, or bulb, should be planted on the top 

 of the mould, and not in it : the pot should not be larger than 

 twice the diameter of the bulb ; (a good sized root will require 

 a six-inch pot ;) after it is planted, it should be kept in a shady, 

 airy situation, with very little water, till the leaves unfold, 

 when it may be removed to a warmer situation, and more 

 abundantly watered. 



All bulbs should be but moderately watered until the leaves 

 form, when the quantity may be increased, care being taken 

 that the soil is neither sodden by over-much water, or dry for 

 the lack of it. After the bulb has done blooming, water should 

 be somewhat more sparingly given, and the plant removed to 

 a colder, and more airy situation, until the leaves begin to 

 turn yellow, when the supply of water should be almost en- 

 tirely withheld ; and when the leaves are decayed, the bulb 

 may be taken from the earth, and put by for planting in the 

 following autumn ; but hyacinths and tulips, after being grown 

 in pots, are scarcely ever fit to be grown in them two seasons 

 in succession. In the ensuing autumn, they should be plant- 

 ed in the open ground, and, if they show flower, the flower 

 stem should be pinched oft'; and, properly attended to, they 

 may be fit for room culture in one or two seasons afterwards. 



When hyacinths are grown in glasses, and it is desirable to 

 save the root, they should be put into pots with the compost 

 used for those grown in earth, and they should be treated ex- 

 actly in the same way as those are after they have done 

 blooming. 



These remarks are very seasonable and so much in detail, 

 that no one can fail of having good flowers. — Ed. 



