until about the time when the slender stems are fully formed it should cease 
altogether, and the plants be removed to a cooler house, but fully exposed to the 
full effects of the sun, which will tend to finish off the bulbs and ripen them. 
This will speedily be shown by the falling leaves, and when they have all fallen 
the plant may be finally put to rest, having ouly just moisture enough given it to 
keep the bulbs in a plump, sound condition. The plants should be grown in hanging 
baskets, draining them thoroughly, and using for soil good fibrous peat and 
picked sphagnum moss in about equal parts; grown in this way the effect when 
in flower is most charming. In the growing season the plants should never be 
allowed to suffer from want of water; at that time they will require a good 
moist atmosphere, and be syringed two or three times a day, in order to keep 
that deadly pest the red-spider away, for these destroy the leaves and cause them 
to fall prematurely, thus weakening the bulbs, and when in this weak state they 
do not flower nearly so abundantly, nor with so much vigour. Its usual time of 
flowering is during the months of April, May and June, continuing about a week © 
or fourteen days in full beauty. 
