October, 1918 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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Bl liftS FOR WINTFK 
AM) SPUING FORCING 
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iii some corner of the garden. 
Choose a level, well drained spot, 
and set the pots as close together 
as possible, water them well and 
cover to a depth of six or eight 
inches with sand or sifted coal 
ashes. Then put a good layer of 
coarse stable manure or leaves 
over them, and as the weather 
grows colder add coarse litter or 
leaves, enough to keep out the 
frost. After the bulbs are rooted 
it won’t hurt them to get frozen, 
but it is better to keep the frost 
out so the more material that is 
put on top of them the easier it is 
to get them out in cold weather. 
The single and double early tu- 
lips are both suitable for forcing, 
and if planted in October should 
be ready to bring in to the heat 
and light about the latter part of 
January. If they have been cared 
for properly, they will be well 
rooted by that time, and will be 
sure to give thorough satisfaction. 
The following single varieties of 
tulips will be found to give good 
results: Cottage Maid, rosy pink 
white striped; Proserpine, glossy 
pink and one of the earliest to 
force ; Rose Luisante, a very beau- 
tiful deep pink; Chrvsolora, yel- 
low; Yellow Prince. These two 
yellows are very swept rented. 
La Reine, white, Keizerkroon, red 
and yellow, Thomas Moore, apri- 
cot orange. There are also many 
other varieties that are suitable. 
Among the double varieties the 
following are good : Couronne 
d’ Or (crown of gold), rich golden 
yellow, Imperator Rubrosum, 
bright scarlet, Murillo, white suf- 
fused with pink, and many others. 
Narcissus are also valuable for 
forcing, and should be given the 
same treatment as advised for tu- 
lips, except the Polyanthus varie- 
ties, which will not stand freez- 
ing. The paper white Grandiflora 
and Chinese Sacred Lily belong 
to this class, and give good results 
grown in bowls of water, with 
gravel or pebbles around them to 
hold them in place. The ordinary 
narcissus or daffodils should be 
grown in soil, and treated like tu- 
lips. The following varieties will 
be found to give excellent results : 
Emperor, Empress, Golden Spur, 
Von Sion. There are other varie- 
ties of bulbs such as Jonquils, cro- 
cus, snowdrops, grape hyacinths, 
scillas and others that are pretty 
that can be forced easily if the 
same method is followed as with 
hyacinths and tulips. The whole 
secret is to give them time to get 
well rooted before trying to force 
them. 
Tf the bulbs are planted at the 
time advised, and left in a dark, 
cool place in the cellar, or out- 
doors, and covered as advised, the 
plants will have made several 
inches of growth by the latter part 
of January, and it will be an easy 
matter to bring them into bloom 
in any ordinary room with a 
sunny window. 
Sirup from Apple Culls. 
For those who have a great 
many second grade apples and 
culls on hand, the making of apple 
sirup is profitable. The acids are 
removed by boiling the cider with 
precipitated chalk (calcium car- 
bonate, or whiting). This neut- 
ralizes the acids of the cider, con- 
verting them into insoluble cal- 
cium salts, which settle to the bot- 
tom and are removed by decanta- 
tion. 
Add three-fifths of an ounce of 
precipitated chalk (obtainable ai 
any drug store) for each gallon of 
cider used, bring to a boil, and 
boil vigorously for five minutes, 
removing the foam and scum as 
fast as formed. Pour into con- 
tainers as tall as are available. 
Two-quart mason jars will do, or 
even big preserving kettles. Let 
stand quietly for four or five 
hours. Then carefully pour off 
the clear liquid, throwing away 
all the sediment at the bottom. 
I toil the clear liquid rapidly down 
to a sirup, removing all scum. 
The sirup should boil at 220 de- 
grees Fahrenheit. 
The sirup is placed in bottles or 
mason jars and sterilized by plac- 
ing the containers in boiling water 
for 15 minutes. If the whole out- 
fit is then allowed to cool slowly, 
the little sediment in the sirup 
will settle to the bottom and leave 
a clear, bright, very pleasing mild 
sirup, with a delightful apple fla- 
vor. — J. J. Willaman, plant chem- 
ist, University Farm, St. Paul. 
Gas Masks — You Can Help. 
Every American has the chance 
for direct war service that will 
save the lives of soldiers. Car- 
bon is needed to make millions of 
gas masks for the American Army. 
Coeoanuts have furnished much of 
this material, but coeoanuts mean 
ships, and during the present 
shortage material for carbon must 
be found nearer home. The pits 
of apricots, peaches, prunes, 
olives, dates, cherries and plums 
and the shells of Brazil nuts, hick- 
ory nuts, walnuts and butternuts 
make carbon for masks that will 
outlast the most diabolical of the 
German gases. 
Here is Avork for all, every 
home, 'church and school. Urge 
