110 Work to be done in the Garden. 
■stand in, if you have been so prudent as to keep 
diem in dry sand hitherto. 
Some of the taller flowers may require a slight 
support lest they should bend down. The minia- 
ture Hyacinths, Tulips, and Scillas never do this 
however. When a support is wanted, I think the 
best thing is a stifflsh piece of wire, which you 
keep straight at first and then bend out suddenly 
into a sort of shoulder, after which it goes straight 
down again for five or six inches more. The 
shoulder is to pass over the bulb— for you may 
not poke wires through it. And then you can tie 
the stem of the flower gently, to the upright part 
of the wire. If, however, you plant a large bowl 
or milkpan full of bulbs, one single stick placed in 
the centre will do to fix all the stems to — for you 
can have threads of silk or lines of wire to connect 
them with it. Be very careful too not to draw 
the string tight, as the stems snap easily. How- 
ever, even supposing you had such a disaster, the 
broken flower would still come out in water. 
Your cuttings indoors now only want air and 
light and to be kept from damp. If you have any 
Evergreens you may sponge their leaves, and give 
them abundant water — and indeed even the bulbs 
and Cyclamens will like a good washing sometimes, 
