Round the Year in the Garden 



routine. Many amateurs plant their Cyclamen in the 

 open garden in late spring, leave them there throughout 

 the summer, and in September lift and repot them. 



The Unheated Greenhouse, The cold, or unheated, 

 greenhouse is less comprehensive in its scope than the 

 heated greenhouse, so far as the number of kinds it can 

 accommodate is concerned, yet it has greater possibilities 

 at the hands of the unskilled in gardening. There is 

 little likelihood of extremes of temperature and atmo- 

 spheric conditions, that account for so many failures with 

 tender plants. Its possessor cannot, it is true, hope to 

 compete against the owner of an artificially heated house 

 in midwinter, but with the passing of the early days of 

 the New Year, he may, at little expense, have an ex- 

 quisite garden of blossom. Best of all, he may enjoy the 

 flowers in their full fresh beauty, untarnished by rain 

 and wind. All that he needs for the bulbs are well- 

 drained flower-pots, or pans, some loamy soil and a little 

 leaf soil, and sand with which to lighten it. Then the 

 whole treasury of spring bulb loveliness is open to him 

 Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, Squills, Pritillaries, Crocuses, 

 Anemones, Hepaticas, and others too numerous to 

 mention, will provide a feast of colour and a succession 

 of attractive blossom until the outdoor beds and borders 

 take up the running. 



There is no need to enlarge upon the details of cul- 

 tivation. It suffices to pot up the bulbs (flower pans are 

 preferable to pots for the small ones), and to keep them 

 cool and dark until roots have formed freely. Then they 

 are brought into the greenhouse and given water when 

 it is needed. The unfolding of flower on flower, each 

 gaining in strength as the sun rises in the heavens, will 

 provide hours and days of gardening joy. All the smaller 

 alpines may be laid under tribute, and especially those 

 raised from seed sown in early spring, and there are sure 

 to be others here and there in the rock garden itself that, 

 with care, may be lifted and repotted. Absolutely cool 



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