January . 
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deep, and you had better choose a nice mild day 
for doing it. Take it all together, I do not think 
it is at all a bad plan to plant as late as January, 
but that you must remember is only out of doors , 
all for flowering indoors are got in long ago. 
Tor if you planted Hyacinths out of doors in 
November, and they should be peeping up when 
a hard frost comes at Christmas, you will have 
some danger of seeing them sadly nipped, unless 
a snow blanket comes to them, or unless you are 
careful in covering them with wisps of straw, or 
leaves, or fern, or with branches of evergreen 
stuck into the ground to shelter them, which is 
the best plan I know. 
THE WINDOW GARDEN IN JANUARY. 
I must not forget to mention the plants you 
have in the windows, because in the winter they 
are nearly your only flowers. If you planted 
bulbs at the proper time in autumn, you will now 
have quantities of the loveliest flowers, making 
the rooms quite sweet. The chief thing that you 
have to do is to keep them watered, always being 
careful to use lukewarm water ; for though they 
may not want watering more than once a week or 
