WlKTER BLOOM. 6$ 



ning of winter, you must, of course, bring some of the 

 plants directly to your rooms earlier in the season, hav- 

 ing cut them back at the time of repotting, and not al- 

 lowing them to become dormant. Afterward, in order 

 to keep up the succession, bring others from the cellar at 

 intervals of one or two weeks, allowing, as I have said, 

 about eight weeks for the formation of the new flowering 

 growth. Thus you may have Eoses constantly in bloom 

 until the flowers of spring return. 



When any of the plants cease to grow, diminish their 

 supply of water, and return them to the cellar, or retain 

 them in place, as may be most convenient, until the time 

 for putting them out in the spring. Then, if they seem 

 to be very much exhausted or sickly and only in such 

 case shake out the roots from the soil, cut off such as 

 are dried and black, give fresh soil in smaller pots, and 

 after shading from the sun for a few days, plunge them 

 as before in the garden beds. Probably the most of them 

 will need only this change to the open air. 



2. Carnations are less liable to injury from frost than 

 tender Roses, and may, therefore, go outside much earlier 

 in spring, " as soon as the earliest garden vegetables ;" and 

 I think you might venture to take them from the pots and 

 plant them out, but be careful to select a deep, rich soil, 

 well drained. Young plants are to be preferred, and if 

 taken from cuttings or layers as late as April or May, 

 they will become sufficiently large for your purpose by 

 winter. During their summer growth, remove the flow- 

 er-buds, and cut back all straggling stems so as to give 

 the plants a compact and bushy form. Early in Septem- 

 ber, carefully transfer them from the garden-bed to pots 

 of moderate size, with rich soil, and keep the pots plunged 

 in the ground until you take them late in the season di- 

 rectly to your rooms. 



3. Callas are rather too large for a crowded window, 

 excepting, perhaps, the new dwarf variety, but in other 



