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An Excellent Way of Handling 
Bulbs for Forcing 
EVERAL years ago I tried an experi- 
ment in growing winter-blooming bulbs, 
which proved so successful that other flower- 
lovers may like to adopt the same method. 
After potting my bulbs—Dutch and Roman 
hyacinths, narcissi in variety, early tulips 
and crocuses—I had made in the garden a 
small pit, in which the bulbs were placed, 
and from which they were brought indoors 
at intervals during the winter. 
The construction of the pit was of the 
simplest. A bottomless box was sunk in the 
ground to a depth of three or four inches— 
enough to make it stand firm. This left 
an enclosing board frame about nine inches 
high above the ground level. Inside this 
frame the earth was dug out to a depth of 
eighteen inches, and a layer of coarse coal 
ashes on the bottom, covered by an inch or 
two of dry sphagnum, insured good drainage. 
On this foundation the pots of bulbs were 
placed. The spaces between the pots were 
filled with sphagnum, and a layer of moss was 
laid over them. ‘The box was then filled in 
with clean oat straw, tucked in with a warm 
blanket of old carpet, and instead of a glass 
sash a tight wooden lid was fitted on and held 
in place by pine boughs. All these precau- 
tions are necessary here, for the thermometer 
sometimes registers far below zero! 
My pit was made and filled late in October; 
early in December it was buried under a foot 
of snow. Two weeks before Christmas the 
snow was dug away and the pit opened. 
I watched the process with some misgivings, 
but there, under their warm coverings, were 
my pots, the earth in them unfrozen, while 
the bulbs were pushing their noses above 
the soil. 
A few pots of Roman hyacinths and poly- 
anthus narcissus (always the earliest bulbs 
to flower indoors), also some Duc van Thol 
tulips were brought in, and the pit was closed. 
Placed in a southern window the bulbs 
quickly responded to warmth and the scant 
sunshine of those brief December days. 
Christmas day saw the hyacinths in bloom, 
and the paper-white. narcissus greeted the 
New Year. The little tulips sprang up 
almost in a single day—strange, ivory-white 
things, and it was interesting to see the buds 
flush with rose which deepened to scarlet, 
while the leaves turned to clear pale green 
when placed under the light of a lamp in the 
evening. 
But it was the Dutch hyacinth and the 
trumpet narcissus that made a phenomenal 
growth. Brought into the house at intervals 
of three or four weeks, from the middle of 
January on, the flower stems would shoot 
upward like Jack’s beanstalk, and I have 
never seen hothouse grown bulbs show more 
massive spikes of bloom, or larger trumpets. 
Since then I have grown many bulbs in 
the same way. Crocuses and snowdrops, 
the brillant ixias and sparaxis (too little 
known) fragrant freesias, the lovely Gladiolus 
Colvillei hybrids (so popular in England, 
so seldom seen here), Spanish irises, and 
many other bulbs may be as easily forced, 
and whosoever will may have, during the 
1906 
DON’T 
Rub 
Boil 
Soak 
Woolens 
RN Wooleaz 
COARSE or FINE—RUGS and CARPETS to 
most DELICATE Flannels LAST longer— | 
LOOK better—FEEL better—ARE better— 
‘SOFTER~FLUFFIER—UNSHRUNKEN if 
A child can do the work. 
-Its Mostly Rinsing 
“Stunted lamp-light”—smoky 
chimney, poor draught, imperfect 
clouded 
glass--why do people put up with 
fit, cracking chimney, 
this when good lamp-light is the 
best light to read by? 
I make and put my name— 
MacsetTH—on_ lamp-chimneys 
that are clear as crystal, never 
break from heat and fit per- 
fectly. 
Macsetu lamp-chimneys give 
lamps new life. 
Let me send you my Index to tell you how to get 
the right chimney for your lamp ; it’s free. Address, 
MACB Ara Pittsburgh. 
Gladioli 
Willow Bank Nursery, Newark, New York 
