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middle of December, or later if there is no danger of 

 frost reaching the pots and breaking them. At the 

 end of this period they will have formed shoots two 

 inches tall and filled the pots entirely with white, 

 fleshy roots. They may be brought into the cold 

 cellar, whence little batches can be taken from time 

 to time and placed in the windows of the parlor and 

 allowed to flower, the kinds marked "early," being 

 selected first and even these should not be expected 

 to flower until the middle of January. 



Burying the Pots 



Referring to the process of burying them in the 

 ground after the bulbs are potted, select a space in 

 the garden of any convenient shape and of an area 

 sufficient to hold them when the pots touch each 

 other. Dig out the soil from the entire area and six 

 inches or seven inches' deep -and pile it around the 

 edges. Set the pots and pans into this shallow pit 

 and once more water them thoroughly; then cover 

 all over with the soil that was dug out. Be careful 

 that there are no large stones over the pots or the 

 young shoots will run foul of them and break their 

 necks in the efi'ort to push up to the daylight. The 

 reason for burying them is to hold the bulbs down in 

 the pots when the roots commence to push and to 

 keep them moist and cool. Early in October is the 

 proper time to do the work. 



Hyacinths in Glasses 



Hyacinths grown in water in the conventional 

 glasses should be kept in a dark, cold cellar until such 



