COMMERCIAL DUTCH-BULB CULTURE. 
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to continue their development until digging time. If the job is care- 
fully done the resultant bulbs will be but little inferior the next year, 
while in regions adapted to the production of bulbs if given a year 
of proper treatment they will entirely recover. 
It is often possible and desirable to use carpeting plants, such as 
pansies, arabis, and phlox, to add to the mass of color or to prolong 
Fig. 18. — A pot of hyacinths showing 
the right kind of root development at 
the time they are brought into full heat. 
Fig. 19. — A pot of crocuses showing the 
time they are brought under forcing 
right kind of top development at the 
conditions. 
the season, when the bulbs may be allowed to ripen in place and be 
lifted, and still later bedding plants may be put in. If the bulbs 
are set deep it is quite possible to spade or fork the ground shallowly 
without disturbing the bulbs and to grow any shallow-rooted crop 
for ornament or profit. We have 
known cowpeas to be planted to 
improve the soil and keep down 
weeds. These can be put in be- 
tween the plants after the flowers 
have faded. 
INDOOR CULTURE. 
20. — A pot of hyacinths showing a 
minimum of top development at the time 
they are taken out of the heeling ground. 
While the florist successfully 
forces millions of narcissi, tulips, p IG 
and hyacinths each season to sup- 
ply the cut-flower market, the 
housewife fails as often as she succeeds with bulbs in the house. If, 
however, a proper selection of bulbs is made and certain requirements 
obtain, which are possibly more easily stated than found in an ordi- 
nary home, success will be assured. There are three conditions to be 
met. The first is to root the bulbs well before bringing them into 
heat (figs. 18, 19, and 20) ; the second, to keep the temperature down; 
