FALL OR HOLLAND BULBS, ETC. 59 



situation during winter, some kinds may be turned out 

 into u warm border in spring, where they will flower ; 

 and if the season be fine, they will ripen their bulbs in 

 time to be taken up before tha approach of frost. 



The chief value of these plants, however, is to produce 

 flowers in the winter season, which they readily do if 

 they are kept dry and dormant during the latter part of 

 the summer and autumn. Indeed, by having a large 

 stock of these bulbs, a regular succession of flowers may 

 be obtained during the year. When the dormant bulbs 

 are wanted to be thrown into flower, they should be fresh 

 potted in sandy loam and leaf mold, and put in a hot- 

 house, hot-bed, or warm sitting-room, at any date from 

 October to January, when the dry bulbs can be had. 

 They should ba kept rather dry, and covered up with 

 leaves until the pot is well filled with roots, just as is 

 done in forcing Hyacinths or Lilies, except, in the case 

 of Amaryllis, the temperature requires to be kept ten 

 degrees higher, the heat beginning at fifty degrees, and 

 ascending to sixty or seventy degrees; and when the 

 leaves or the flowers appear, the plants should be abund- 

 antly supplied with water. Our long and warm summers 

 enable us to cultivate many of these beautiful bulbs in 

 the open air, by merely protecting the roots in winter in 

 some dry, warm cellar, as we do Dahlias or Potatoes. 



THE CYCLAMEN. 



Many amateur florists have an ambition to grow this 

 beautiful bulb, and it is often done well even in an ordi- 

 nary sitting-room, though, as it requires a season of rest, 

 it is often injured by this not being given properly or at 

 the right time. Cyclamen bulbs, in the dry state, can be 

 procured usually from seedsmen in September or October. 

 When received they should be potted in five, six, or seven 

 inch pots, according to the size of the bulb. The pots 

 should be well drained and filled loosely with rich, soft 



