114 HOUSE PLANTS 



enough. Plant them in boxes six inches 

 deep, setting the bulbs three inches apart 

 each way. Make one inch holes in the bot- 

 tom of the boxes every six inches, and give 

 good drainage. Some good varieties are the 

 Bride, Ne Plus Ultra, Shakespeare, Cardinal, 

 and May. With these you are almost sure 

 to succeed. The late flowering varieties are 

 more or less likely to go *' blind," t. e., the 

 buds fail to expand. 



