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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



Tuberoses are often forwarded, so as to be had in 

 flower in the earlier fall months, in sections of the coun- 

 try where the season is too short. This is done exactly 

 in the way recommended for the spring forcing, by start- 

 ing the bulbs in damp moss ; but for this purpose the 



Fig. 46. SOUND BULB. Fig. 47. BULB DECAYED AT CENTER. 



dry bulbs should not be placed in the moss until the 

 middle of May. By the middle of June, when the weather 

 has become warm, and they are set out, they will start to 

 grow at once, and will in this way flower from three to 

 four weeks earlier than if the dry bulb had been put in 

 the open ground, cold as it is in the most of the Northern 



