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Work to be done in the Garden . 
WINDOW GARDENING. 
The dishes and pans of bulbs will now many of 
them be beginning to go out of blossom. While 
they are in flower you can’t give them too much 
water. You must be careful also when they begin 
to fade not to let them dry up too quickly — it is 
best only to cut off the stalks of the fading flowers, 
carefully avoiding hurting the leaves or breaking 
them, and if the bulbs were in water, you can 
then lay them in a heap of soil with the tops just 
out, and keep them safe from frost. But this is 
not much use for things that have flowered so 
early — I think it is better to put them aside and 
to have new ones next year. If they flower in- 
doors as late as March and April you can plant 
them afterwards in soil in some out-of-the-way 
corner, and very likely then they may flower again 
next spring. 
In these pans of bulbs you will no doubt have 
quantities of blue Scillas. These will not yet be 
nearly out of blossom — and as they always bear 
removing perfectly well, you can gently draw them 
straight up out of the sand they grow in, making 
that sand first very wet indeed, and plant the 
