AND OTHER CHOICE 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS, 
OFFERED BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
EARLY ORDERS ARE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED TO ENSURE FINE BULBS. 
Foi’ the convenience of pui’chaeers 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. 
• Tlie bulbs .should be potted in soil composed of equal parts of cow mtmui’e, good loam, and 
' river sand. Tliis compost should be prepared in April or May, and af terw ards tmiied over two or 
] three times. If this cannot be had, the soil which has been used in a hothouse for growing 
. Cucumbens, 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 with six inches of the same material, or cocoa fibre is preferable ; 
, there let the pots remain tiU full of roots, which will usually be about six or eight weeks. If very [ 
early flowers are required, pot in September, and when sufficiently rooted force gently, and give 
abundance of water ; but if large finely developed trusses and rich colom’s are preferred to very early 
flowers, the Hyacinth must not be forced, but when removed indoors should bo idaced 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 natmally, giving water 
^ regnJarly and freely, as it is well known to ciUtivators that failures, for the most part, arise from | 
, allowing the soil to become dry, when the rootlets are in consequence injiued. Abundance of air is 
' necessary, but a dry atmosphere and a di’aughty situation should be sedulously avoided. 
] If tho Hj'acinth is cultivated in glas-ses, the ba.se of the bulb should just touch tire water, and a 
little charcoal should be placed in the glass to keep tho water sweet. Tlie glasses, if possible, should ' 
■ bo kept in a room without a fii’e, or better still in a greenhouse. 
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