November, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
37 
us ng a cold frame for forcing 
bulbs? I have seen this advised 
in a fall catalog:” 
The cold frame may be used to 
advantage as a storage place for 
bulbs potted or in Hats. 
The florist provides a shed or 
ether room kept dark and a few 
degrees above freezing where he 
packs away the pots and flats 
(shallow boxes) of bulbs and cov- 
ers them with sphagnum or sand. 
ThL treatment provides ideal con- 
ditions for root growth without top 
growth — the first requirement in 
bulb forcing. After a few weeks 
the pots may be brought in as re- 
quired all through the winter. 
When the amateur attempts to 
imitate the florist he finds himself 
handicapped by lack of moist, 
darkened storage room that can be 
kept at a low temperature. 
The old fashioned farm cellar 
with earthen floor and banked 
windows would be ideal, but the 
city dweller’s cement floored cel- 
la' 1 with furnace is about the poor- 
est place to be found for the first 
stage of bulb forcing. Constant, 
almost daily attention is required 
to control moisture at the roots 
even if the temperature can be 
controlled. Here is where the 
amateur may employ a cold frame 
or hotbed pit if he is fortunate 
enough to possess one.. The potted 
or boxed bulbs covered with sand, 
the frame banked with manure 
arid the frames covered with bur- 
lap or straw are accessible at any 
time. Even if the later ones freeze 
no harm will result. 
A Charming Phlox. 
W. J. Moyle. 
The past summer has been very 
favorable for the growth and 
b’ooming of the phlox and one of 
ly appealed to me is Madam Paul 
Dutrie. It has a good constitution, 
is a vigorous grower with large 
panicles of the most delicate rosy 
lilac flowers imaginable 
ter killed with me even when plant- 
ed in the most exposed places. 
The florets are large, pure white 
with a bright carmine eye. 
Miss Lingard, one of the older va- 
Perennial phlox, Miss Lingard; white with delicate pink center. The 
pliiox is a hardy plant and may eften be found in neglected or abandonded 
gardens struggling with grass and weeds. This, however, is not a good 
reason for starving this courageous flower by compelling it to fight for 
sunlight and nourishment in sod or in a barren strip by a house wall. The 
splendid specimen shown here was given a fair chance. 
Another good old stand by with 
me is Richard Wallace. This is a 
tall growing variety and is ex- 
treme! v hardy, never having win- 
rietics is also one of if not our best 
white, good grower, waxy white 
and a fine cut flower and, if kept 
cut back, an everlasting bloomer. 
