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The Year's Calendar for Flowers 

 in the House Conservatory 



January. During the month, bring up the later- 

 blooming (pink and light blue) Roman hyacinths, 

 and White Italian hyacinths for forcing. Look over 

 the pots of exhibition hyacinth, and bring up any 

 that are read}- to be forced. Consult your con- 

 servatory note-book carefully, noting the past 

 year's successes and failures, and make your plans 

 for the coming year. If you are planning to occupy 

 the house during the summer, you have the problem 

 of the conservatory's attractiveness during the 

 summer months to consider. I have solved this, 

 by ordering early in January, 150 bulbs of tuberous 

 begonias. I buy a mixture of all types and colors, 

 and bought in so large a quantity, they make a 

 most inexpensive, as well as satisfactory display 

 during the entire summer and fall. Gloxinias, or 

 other summer-blooming bulbs, would doubtless do 

 equally well. 



Flowers in blossom in January are: Freesias, 

 primroses in variety. Gloire de Lorraine and grac- 

 ilis begonias, nasturtiums (just beginning) white 

 Roman hyacinths, earliest exhibition hyacinths, 

 geraniums, and Impatiens. 



February. Bring up any of the crocus, large 

 trumpet narcissus, or jonquils for forcing. Also 

 late exhibition hyacinths. Start sprouting twenty- 

 five or so of your tuberous begonia bulbs, in pans 

 of wet moss. When sprouted, so that you can be 

 absolutely sure which is the top and bottom of the 

 bulbs, plant the bulbs among your primroses, scat- 

 tering them widely over the whole conservatory. 

 Send in your order for primrose seeds for next 

 year's plants. 



Flowers in blossom in February' are: Freesias, 

 primroses in variety, pink and light blue, Roman 

 hyacinths, white Italian hyacinths, nasturtiums, be- 

 gonias, exhibition hyacinths, geraniums, Impatiens. 



March. Bring up any remaining bulbs of the 

 above-mentioned varieties for forcing. Sprout and 

 plant another instalment of tuberous begonias. 

 Keep all faded flowers well picked off from blooming 

 plants. Put boxes of forced, large trumpet nar- 

 cissus in a cool corner of the cellar for ripening. Do 

 the same with crocus. Gradually withhold water 

 until the tops turn yellow. Then cut off the 

 tops, dig up the bulbs, and put away for planting 

 in the garden later in the spring. These are 

 the only bulbs that I consider worth the bother 

 of saving. The others do not repay the labor 

 spent on them. 



These flowers are in blossom in March: prim- 

 roses in variety, Gloire de Lorraine and gracilis 

 begonias, nasturtiums, crocus, large trumpet 

 narcissus, jonquils, exhibition hyacinths, petunias 

 (just beginning), geraniums, Impatiens. 



April. If you have bulbs of gladioli, late tulips, 

 Spanish iris, etc., now is the time to start forcing 

 them. They will not succeed if forced earlier. Plant 

 primrose seeds in shallow pans or boxes, barely 

 covering the seeds with fine sand. As so few seeds 

 come in each packet, I find it best to take the 

 trouble to space them carefully and plant them one 

 by one. It takes more time at the outset, but saves 

 a great deal of labor and uncertainty later. At the 

 time of sowing, keep a record of the date, number 

 of seeds, and names of varieties. Finish sprouting 

 and planting tuberous begonias. Begin pulling up 

 any old primrose plants that are getting unsightly 

 or scanty in blossom. They are not worth keep- 

 ing for another year, as they seldom do well, and 



