GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
SPRING BEAUTIES 
As I look up from my work, my eyes rest on the 
different spring bulbs blooming this 28th day of 
February, in my south window, against their snowy. 
background,—purple crocus, both red and white 
tulips, and that loveliest of daffodils, the white- 
tipped Queen Victoria. They were potted last Oc- 
tober, covered up in an ash-lined trench outdoors 
until after the holidays, then carried into a cold 
but light attic for a week, before finally being 
brought into a warm room. The daffodils cost but 
three cents apiece, yet each fills an ordinary pot, 
and produces three lovely blossoms, four inches 
across. 
A new fibre is now on the market at a very low 
price that can be used exactly like earth, only it 
does not sour, and consequently can be-put in any 
fine bowl or jar, as it does not need drainage. 
Once thoroughly wet, it has only to be kept moist 
and the plants do as well as in soil. I, personally, 
prefer to plant in soil. 
The family living in an apartment with no cold 
place to start the bulbs that take so long, could 
easily fix a box or egg-crate under the coldest win- 
dow and darken it with a small rug, hiding there 
for a few weeks the Roman hyacinths and narcissi. 
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