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ers are disappointed and, after an experience 

 of this sort, are inclined to consider hyacinths 

 as difficult to grow, but it must be remembered 

 that this is a peculiarity of the bulb itself and 

 is not due to any lack of proper culture. The 

 most satisfactory method of planting them 

 is to remove five or six inches of the top soil 



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in which they are to be -set, carefully spade 

 up the sub-soil to a depth of twelve inches 

 or more and, making the surface of this fine, 

 spread over it a half-inch layer of sand and 

 on this set the bulbs. Hyacinths when thus 

 planted are set at a uniform depth and con- 

 sequently throw their bloom spikes at practi- 



