THE AMARYLLIS 



Onion. Any amateur wishing to grow it, and 

 wanting an object-lesson in its culture, can 

 get a good deal of valuable information on the 

 subject by going into the garden and taking a 

 look at the Onion bed in September. Plant 

 your x\maryllis in the same manner that you 

 see the Onions growing there. Do not use a 

 large pot. Six-inch pots are quite large enough 

 for the average-size bulb. 



Let the soil for this plant be a moderately 

 rich one of loam, barnyard manure of the old, 

 well-rotted kind, and some sand. Use two 

 parts loam to one part manure. Never use 

 manure that is not black with age. If you can- 

 not get it, use bone-meal in the proportion of 

 a teacupful to a half bushel of soil. Have good 

 drainage. If water stands about the base of 

 the bulbs decay almost always sets in, and 

 that means utter failure. 



When you pot the bulb just received from 

 the florist, water it well, and set it away in a 

 quiet place to get a start. Wait patiently. 

 Sometimes there will be no indication of 

 growth for months. All at once you may see 

 a leaf shooting up, and this will be followed by 

 another, and another, five or six often being 

 produced at one period of growth. As a gen- 



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