BULBS FOR SUMMER BLOOMING 81 



buds will appear, in a night, as it were, and will soon 

 hold aloft the great rosy-white flowers, indescribably 

 sweet and stately. 



After the blooming period is over a second and 

 even a third florescence will often follow if similar 

 conditions of growth and complete rest are induced. 



The bulbs may be left in the ground as long as 

 frost can be kept from them and coldframe or spent- 

 hotbed treatment conduces admirably to this, but at 

 the coming of cold weather they must be lifted and 

 stored in boxes of dry soil in a warm cellar — a fur- 

 nace cellar being a favorable place for them — until 

 time to plant out again the following June. 



