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should be served up. To set the glasses on the window ledge is nearly as fatal 
to them; the cold air coming up between the sash chills them. Plants of all 
kinds are as sensitive to a draft as human beings are. In order to have them 
near the light, put up light brackets or a narrow shelf across the window, say 
six inches from the glass, which 
will protect them both from the 
sun and the draft. 
A very good plan for growing 
them in glasses is first to put the 
bulb in clean sand until the roots 
have become well grown, say six 
inches long; then take them out 
of the sand, put them in glasses, 
and treat as above. It is really 
curious to see them growing in 
water, and when, as you some- 
times will do, )'ou get a good 
spike, the satisfaction is very 
great. 
Hyacinths will grow and bloom 
in moss alone, if it be kept con- 
tinually wetted ; but a far better 
way is to fill half way whatever 
vessel you may choose — a bowl, 
dish, or vase — with clean sand, 
place the bulb upon it, and fill the 
rest with good green moss. Use 
sufiicient water to keep the sand 
full, but with none lying on the 
top. Once in three or four water- 
ings you may use liquid manure, 
which may be made of half a peck 
of well rotted cow manure put in 
ten gallons of water, well stirred 
up, and allowed to settle, the clear 
liquid alone being used. Thiswill 
strengthen the growth; still with- 
out such stimulant the plants will 
Fig. 27.— Jardinet, with Hyacinth. 
come short, strong, and well colored, if kept fully exposed to the light, and well 
supplied with air. 
Those who grow Hyacinths in part to gratify curiosity, will be amused by 
taking a deep saucer or glass dish, fill it to the rim with clean, white gravel, 
ipon which place a good, firm bulb; then treat the same as with glasses. The 
