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A SETjiE CIO IL.IS'T 
OF 
lYICIlTlS, TllIPS, GIOCIS, 
AND OTHER CHOICE 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS, 
OFFEBED BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
EARLY ORDERS ARE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED TO ENSURE FINE BULBS. 
For the convenience of purchasers who do not wish to choose their own sorts, Mr. W. BULL will 
have much pleasure in making suitable and liberal selections of the finest and most 
distinct free-blooming varieties. 
CULTURE. 
The bulbs should be potted in soil composed of equal parts of cow manure, good loam, and 
river sand. This compost should be prepared in April or May, and afterwards turned over two or 
three times. If this cannot be had, the soil which has been used in a hothouse for growing 
Cucumbers, Tomatoes, etc., is a good substitute, and is superior to freshly-made soil. 
Immediately after potting, which may be done from September to December, place out of doors 
on a bed of ashes, and cover the pots rvith six inches of the same material, or cocoa fibre is preferable ; 
there let the pots remain tUl full of roots, which will usually be about six or eight weeks. If very 
early flowers are requued, pot in September, and when sufficiently rooted force gently, and give 
abundance of w'ater ; but if large finely developed trusses and rich colours are preferred to very early 
flowers, the Hyacinth must not be forced, but when removed indoors should be placed on the shelf of 
a greenhouse, or in a cold frame, close to the glass, always in the most genial and sunniest situation 
at command, and the plants allowed to develop their flowers gradually and naturally, giving water 
regpilarly and freely, as it is well known to ciiltivators that failures, for the most part, arise from 
allowing the soil to become dry, when the rootlets are in consequence injured. Abimdance of air is 
necessary, but a dry atmosphere and a draughty situation should be sedulously avoided. 
If the Hyacinth is cultivated in glasses, the base of the bulb should just touch the water, and a 
little charcoal should be placed in the glass to keep the water sweet. The glasses, if possible, should 
be kept in a room without a fire, or better still in a greenhouse. 
K. 
