A SELECT LIST 
AND 
OF 
OTHER CHOICE 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED 
OFFERED BY 
PLANTS, 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S 
EARLY ORDERS ARE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED TO ENSURE FINE BULBS. 
Fop 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, aud afterwards turned over two or 
three times. If this cannot bo 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 with six inches of the same material, or ooooa fibre is preferable ; 
' there let the pots remain till full of roots, which will usually be about six or eight weeks. If very 
] early flowers are required, pot in September, and when sufliciently rooted force gently, and give 
■ abundance of water ; but if large finely developed trusses and rich colours are pi'efcrred 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 allow'ed to develop their flowers gradually and naturally, giving water 
' regijarly and freely, as it is well known to cultivators that failures, for the most part, arise from 
] allowing the soil to become dry, when the rootlets are in consequence injured. Abundance 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 
i be kept in a room without a fire, or better still in a greenhouse. 
