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Wheels adjustable to various width 
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crops they grew, how they lived, or how 
they died. They have left little beside a 
lot of useless stone walls and a few 
great trees around the old house. These 
walls serve no good purpose; they repre¬ 
sent a nuisance, but somehow I feel a 
great desire to know the people who 
planted these great trees, that honey¬ 
suckle, the big Wistaria vine. These 
meant nothing to the farm. They pro¬ 
duced no food, they served no practical 
purpose, yet they are the only really ap¬ 
pealing things which these old-timers 
have handed to us out of the long years. 
That thought sent me on a chase into the 
past to learn what I could about that 
abandoned house. Had it not been for 
the lilacs I doubt if we could have taken 
more than passing interest in the old 
ruin, hut somehow I wanted to know’ why 
the lilacs were left when all the rest had 
been destroyed. H. W. c. 
(To Be Continued) 
Calceolarias and Carnations as House 
Plants 
1. I have some Calceolarias that I have 
in a sunny window, and the leaves spot 
and dry up. What can I do to make 
them bloom? Are Calceolarias peren¬ 
nials? 2. Can carnations be grown in 
the house in a sunny window? What 
care should be given them to have them 
bloom? Are they perennials? 
Woonsocket, R. I. mrs. a. m. 
1. The trouble with the Calceolaria 
foliage may be due to water lying on 
the leaves. They are quite sensitive to 
this, and should be w'atered carefully on 
the soil, not overhead. They are also 
affected sometimes w’ith a species of leaf 
spot, hut control measures do not seem 
to be satisfactory, as usual sprays are 
detrimental to the foliage. They will 
not bloom in too warm a place. It is 
possible that these plants, grow’n in a 
window are suffering from too high a 
temperature; a night temperature of 40°, 
rising to 50 or 55° during the day, is 
sufficient. While they will stand the full 
sun in Winter, a north aspect is given 
from the end of March on. There are 
shrubby perennial Calceolarias, but the 
greenhouse hybrids commonly grow r n in 
this country are treated as annuals. 
2. Carnations are perennials, though 
when grown in greenhouses for flow’er 
production they are usually raised fresh 
from cuttings each year. They are not 
very satisfactory as house plants, be¬ 
cause the ordinary living-room is too 
warm for them, and not sufficiently 
moist and airy. In a dry warm room 
they are likely to make a poor grow’th, 
and to suffer from red spider. We 
lave seen them growing in a cool room 
with fairly satisfactory results, but 
there are other plants that will make 
more show in the window garden. 
Propagating Hyacinths 
How do florists get their bulbs of hya¬ 
cinths? Do they grow on the bottom of 
the main bulb, as do Gladiolus? I hope 
to grow some this Fall for next Spring. 
Jersey City, N. J. c. H. 
You cannot grow hyacinth bulbs this 
Fall for next Spring; the offsets are 
grown on for four or five years before 
they reach market size. The world’s supply 
of hyacinth bulbs is grown in Holland, 
where soil and climate are especially con¬ 
genial, and where there is skilled labor 
brought up in the industry. When the 
market bulbs are dug early in August, 
overgrown or unshapely bulbs are re¬ 
served for propagating. When dug, three 
deep cross cuts are made in the base of 
each bulb, and they are set out bottom 
upward, and covered with loose soil for 
tw T o or three weeks. They are then taken 
up and spread on tables in storehouses 
until October, when they are planted out. 
They are lifted the following June, when 
the parent bulb is reduced to dry skin, 
on the edge of which are a number of off¬ 
sets. These bulblets are picked off by 
hand and planted out in Autumn, like 
large bulbs. The process of planting out 
in Fall and taking up in Summer for two 
months’ rest is continued for four or five 
years, until the bulbs are marketable. 
Hyacinths are also propagated by hol¬ 
lowing out the bottom of the bulb smooth¬ 
ly to a point in the center. This results 
in a large crop of offsets, but they are 
small in size, and require longer to grow 
on. You can procure a useful bulletin on 
bulb growing from the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. 
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