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the bulbs may be grown in. The flowers will receive a check if yon do not attend 
to this. A small piece of charcoal will keep the water sweet longer. The bulbs 
may be set in a tray of soil or moss until the roots are two inches long ; where 
much is clone in this way, and glasses are deemed more ornamental than pots, the 
general collection may be grown in small pots as above and at any period, even 
when in full bloom, they may be transferred from the pot to the glasses ; all that 
is necessary is to procure a pail of water warmed to about 60 ° , turn the plant out 
of the pot, place the ball in the water, and gently wash away the soil, the roots 
may then be easily placed in the glass in water, holding a little manure clear in 
suspension. 
When the roots have nearly reached the bottom of the glass, they sometimes 
collect at the extremity of each a pellicle or covering of mucous matters. This 
soon stops up the mouth of the roots, by which the food of the plant is conveyed 
to the leaves. To prevent this the roots should be drawn carefully out of the glass- 
es, and a wide vessel should be placed handy filled with clean water. In this im- 
merse the roots of the bulbs, and draw the mass carefully through the hand, press- 
ing them gently. Do this two or three times, until the roots are white and clean. 
Whilst one person is doing this, let another be washing out the glass, and wiping 
it quite clean and dry. Then gradually work the clean washed roots into the glass, 
before putting in any water. To get them in when numerous it will be found nec- 
essary to twist them around until they reach their old quarters, and the bulbs rest 
. upon the neck of the glass ; then fill the glass with clear rain or soft water, and 
replace it in the window. Once washing will generally be sufficient. After this 
no more care will be necessary, excepting occasionally changing the water. 
For giving vigor to the plants, and color to the flowers, we know of no better 
means than to dissolve in a quart of rain water an ounce of guano, and to pour one 
teaspoonful of that into each bottle once a fortnight after the flowers begin to ap- 
pear. For style and utility we would recommend glasses of Tye's pattern. 
CULTURE OF THE HYACINTH IN POTS. 
us ueuuues. iii any siage 01 growui me plants can oe removed irom meir pots 
and arranged at pleasure, either in flower baskets, vases, or any of the numerous 
contrivances already suggested. To cultivate the Hyacinth successfully in pots, a 
free porous soil is indispensable. The compost described under the head of "soils'. 5 
is considered the most desirable. The size of the pots must be regulated by the 
accommodation and requirements of the cultivator : for one bulb a four inch pot 
will grow the Hyacinth well, but one. five or five and a half inches will do better: 
for three bulbsja six or seven-inch pot will be sufficient, (and here we would remark 
Hyacinths cultivated in groups are much more effective than grown single). 
At the bottom of the pot place over the hole a piece of potsherd and some char- 
coal, and on this some rough pieces of tufty loam to insure good drainage, then 
fill the pots with the prepared soil to within an inch of the top, place the bulb in 
the center, or, if three at equal distance apart, pressing them well into the soil, and 
filling up, leaving only the crown of the bulbs uncovered ; moderately water and 
place them on a dry, level bottom of coal-ashes in an open place, and covered 
over, to the depth of from six to eight inches above the bulbs, with decayed leaves 
sand, or old tan bark, leaving it rather higher in the center than at the sides, so as 
to throw oft heavy rams ; or a few boards, will be useful for the same purpose, as 
the soil m the pots will absorb as much moisture from the ground as the bulbs re- 
quire If placed m such a bed from the beginning of September to the middle of 
October the bulbs will have a temperature ranging from 50 ° to 55 ° which in 
soil not over-wet, will promote a healthy vegetation. In from eight to ten weeks 
the pots will be getting crammed with roots, and before that time it is vain to at- 
tempt to _ force them to produce good flower-stems. The bulbs have been gradu- 
ally deprived ox their moisture the previous summer and now they must be as orad- 
uaily supplied with thorough healthy roots to secure a healthy flower-stem early in 
the season When wanted in full bloom by Christmas and the New Year, those 
pots full of roots and showing the flower-truss through the incipient leaves should 
he selected, place at first in a shady part of a green-house, so that the blanched 
