6 BULBS AND TUBEKO DS-ROOTED PLANTS. 



its stems and roots. The stronger the plant, the more 

 freely will it flower, providing it has proper care, and 

 all that is necessary is to give it liquid manure, two or 

 three times during its period of growth, with an abund- 

 ance of water ; it is better to set the pot, or tub, in 

 which it is grown, into a larger one, when it commences 

 to throw up its flower spikes, then keep the space 



A CLUSTER OF AGAPANTHUS FLOWERS. 



between the two at all times filled with water. Treated 

 in this way, we have seen a plant with more than a 

 dozen spikes of bloom, some of which numbered more 

 than two hundred and fifty flowers. After the season 

 of flowering is past, gradually withhold water, and upon 

 the approach of cold weather remove to its winter quar- 

 ters, where it may remain until time to put it out of doors 



