CHAPTER IV 



Water Culture in the House 



No soil to make dirt indoors — How much water? — Start- 

 ing in the dark and bringing into light — ^The "blast" — 

 Culture in plain water, sand, or moss fibre — Chinese 

 sacred lily — Trumpet daffodils in hyacinth glasses — 

 Feeding. 



For parlour and library or any place where 

 there is more or less danger of damage to car- 

 pets and furniture from overflow watering of 

 potted plants, the method of growing bulbs 

 In glasses of water, bowls of pebbles and wa- 

 ter, and moss or fibre and water has much to 

 recommend it. The ladies of the family usu- 

 ally find much pleasure in growing a few flow- 

 ers in this way and the early varieties can 

 easily be made to bloom by Christmas time. 



Whatever the method adopted, the pro- 

 cedure is substantially the same in all 

 cases. The vessel holding the bulb and the 

 water is put into an airy cool cellar, garret, 

 storeroom, or cold pit, in dim light — not into 

 a close confined closet — and kept there until 

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