The RURAL. NEW - YORKER 
367 
After Care of Easter Plants 
The Easter flowers we are now looking 
forward to represent preparations made 
long months before. Some of them may 
he retained for another season’s bloom, 
but not all. Cinerarias, showy and inex¬ 
pensive, are quite useless after their 
bloom is past, and we do not recommend 
carrying over Cyclamens. Such tender 
bulbs as the Paper White Narcissus are 
useless out of doors, and cannot be recom¬ 
mended for a second forcing, and there are 
many flowering plants and greenhouse 
shrubs that offer little encouragement to 
the amateur for future use. but there are 
a number of these Easter plants that may 
well be kept over. 
Azaleas.— These are among the plants 
to be excluded after June 1, under the 
new quarantine ruling, so it will be well 
to give good care to any acquired this 
Easter. As the plant goes out of bloom, 
pick of! the faded flowers, so that no 
seeds are formed. Water the plant as be¬ 
fore, keeping it in a cool light window, 
thus encouraging it to make growth. If 
any long straggly shoots form they may 
be pinched back, so as to keep the shape 
symmetrical. When danger of frost is 
past, put the plant outside; if the room 
A I*ising Gardener and His Hyacinths 
has been warm transfer it to a cooler one 
before removing outdoors. Put the plant 
in partial shade—under a tree is a good 
spot—plunging the pot in the ground to 
prevent drying out. It is wise to put a 
layer of coal ashes under the pot to pre¬ 
vent the entrance of earthworms. Water 
regularly, spraying the top in dry weath¬ 
er. and bring indoors before frost. If re¬ 
potting is needed, do this in September, 
before bringing in. Pot firmly in a mix¬ 
ture of one-half peat, one-half leaf mold, 
with some loam added; base of stem 
should not be below surface. Good drain¬ 
age and firm potting are the great requis¬ 
ites in potting Azaleas. 
Easter Lilies.— l>o not shake the bulb 
out of the i>ot; continue watering as be¬ 
fore, and when warm enough plunge the ( 
pot outdoors like the Azalea, but where it 
will have abundant sunlight. About Au¬ 
gust growth will gradually cease, and the 
plant will become yellow and withered. 
Water should then lie gradually withheld 
until the stems are dead : the pot should 
then be stored in the cellar, where it will 
not dry out entirely. In October shake 
the earth off tin* bulb and repot. The pot 
must be clean, with crocks for drainage 
in the bottom, using two-thirds good gar¬ 
den soil and one-third well-rotted manure. 
Set the bulb in the center of the pot. with 
two inches of clear space above it; just 
barely cover with soil. More soil is add¬ 
ed later as a mulch in which the stem 
roots run. Water well. Keep the pot in 
a cool cellar, or in a frame outside, water¬ 
ing if needed, until abundant roots are 
formed, when it may be brought inside to | 
the light. 
Small Bruts.—It is not wise to try to 
force small Dutch bulbs .a second time, 
but such hyacinths as the boy holds in the 
picture are likely to give outdoor flowers 
in the future. We treat them much the 
same as the Easter lilies; then, when 
fully dried off, they are shaken out of the 
pots and put away in bags until the regu¬ 
lar planting time in October, when they 
are set out of doors. Tulips and hardy 
Narcissi are treated in the same way. 
They should not be mixed in beds with 
new bulbs, but set in odd corners where 
if will not spoil appearances if they fail. 
They will not bloom usually the next 
Spring, but the season after.’ They are 
useful to dot in the edges of shrubbery or 
herbaceous borders. 
The Japanese Spiraeas (Iloteial so 
often forced for Easter, are set in the 
herbaceous border after blooming, and al¬ 
ways do well with us. being very hardy, 
but usually fail to bloom again until the 
second season. 
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