Sweet fl>eas 
With the hope of giving encouragement to my sister gardeners, I 
offer my experience and success in the culture of sweet peas. 
Last October we dug a trench two and a half feet deep, two and 
a half feet wide, and two hundred feet long, and into it we put one foot 
of cow manure. The soil taken out of it was mixed with lime and left 
exposed to the frost through the winter. 
In March the seeds were sown in two and a half inch pots in the 
greenhouse, three seeds to each pot. As soon as they began to germi- 
nate they were put into cold frames and given as much air as possible. 
The 1st of April the soil was put back into the trench, incorpo- 
rated with the manure, and the remaining six inches were filled with 
soil mixed with bone meal and lime in the proportion of one-half pound 
to each yard. 
April 15 th the sweet peas were planted out, six inches apart in 
double rows. The result was a vine six feet tall — stems eight to ten 
inches long, each bearing four large blooms — and sweet peas from the 
first week in June until the last week in August. 
LlLLIE V. S. LlNDABURY, 
Garden Club of Somerset Hills. 
Ibow to (Brow Bulbs in jfibrc 
The following hints on how to grow bulbs in fibre by an amateur 
gardener whose only assets were a cold attic and a sunny window, 
may be useful to others with the same limited opportunities. Twelve 
bowls and about six dozen bulbs kept the window beautiful with flow- 
ers from Thanksgiving Day to the end of April. 
Fibre is a substitute for soil, and is a clean, odorless, moss-like 
material which can be used successively for a number of years. It is 
light, holds moisture and can be put in ornamental china bowls with no 
outlet for water, as it requires no drainage. A dollar's worth of fibre 
from the florist is enough to start with. Choose a bowl suitable for the 
kind of bulb you wish to plant; put a few pieces of charcoal in the 
bottom and then fill with the moistened fibre to the depth of two or 
three inches, according to the height of the bowl. Place the bulbs in 
position so that their tips reach to within half an inch of the rim and 
fill in the spaces between and around with fibre. While their roots are 
growing put them in a cold attic — cellars are usually too hot, and closets 
too airless — and cover them with something that will exclude the light 
but not the air. In the writer's case the ideal covering was found to 
be old-fashioned hooded fire blowers, stored in the attic. Visit them 
once a week and water, if necessary, keeping them moist but not too 
wet. It is fatal if they are allowed to become dry. When the bulbs 
have grown about one inch above the surface they should be brought 
