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tical with those in use for Roman Hyacinths and Tulips 

 already described, except that, after the boxes or pots are 

 filled with roots, tlje time for the development of the 

 flower is longer. The dry bulbs, however, usually can be 

 procured as early as first week in August, and if potted 

 or boxed up at that time and placed outside, will form 

 roots, sufficient to allow them to be brought into the 



Fig. 44. FREESIA REFRACTA ALBA. 



greenhouse by the 1st of October, and if kept in a tem- 

 perature of sixty degrees at night, with ten or fifteen 

 degrees higher during the daytime, will give a crop of 

 flowers by Christmas ; like all other bulbs, succession 

 crops should be brought in to force. The Bermuda Easter 

 Lily is largely used for decoration at Easter, and for that 

 season, beginning to force in January will be soon enough. 

 Lihum longiflorum and Lilium candidum require ex- 



