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maintain the stock for outdoor use next 
summer, most of the plants so started will 
not make very big specimens before next 
April or May, and it will therefore be de¬ 
sirable to save some of the large plants. 
If taken up and potted at the last moment, 
and brought directly into the house, not 
one in fifty would live; but if the plants 
are severely cut back, the roots carefully 
trimmed and proper treatment — which is 
described more in detail in the Garden 
Department — given, most of them will 
come through all right and repay very 
handsomely the trouble taken. 
And lastly, there are the plants to buy 
for the house. Don’t wait until Christ¬ 
mas, when the best of the florists’ stock 
has been picked out and prices are abnor¬ 
mally high. There is no better time to get 
plants than now, and furthermore they 
will receive less of a shock in being re¬ 
moved from the greenhouse to your liv¬ 
ing-rooms, a matter of great importance. 
First of all in consideration for this 
purpose, perhaps, come the ferns. There 
is not space here to go over the list, but 
I want to put in one word of advice: do 
not be content to take whatever a small 
local florist may have on hand, because 
there are a number of comparatively re¬ 
cent introductions which will please you 
better. Scotti is an improved form of the 
famous Boston fern. Whitmani is one of 
the most beautiful of the ostrich plume 
ferns, and well suited to house culture. 
Scholzeli is a plumed form of the Scotti 
fern. Pteris Childsi and Victoriac are 
beautiful new forms of the popular Pteris ; 
and a great improvement on the univer¬ 
sally favorite holly fern is Cyrtomium 
Rochfordeanum, the crested holly. All of 
these are well suited to withstand the 
somewhat uncertain conditions of house 
culture. 
Then there is the beautiful Lorraine be¬ 
gonia, and azaleas, primulas, cyclamen, 
araucarias, among the winter plants one 
gets of the florist. If your local florist 
hasn't them, do not be afraid to order from 
one of the large catalogue firms. If you 
attend to it now there will be no danger 
of injury by frost. 
Bulbs (and tuberous rooted plants such 
as the gladiolus, usually termed bulbs) in¬ 
clude two general classes: those planted in 
fall and those planted in spring. Atten¬ 
tion must be given both in the fall clean¬ 
up. 
The fall-planted bulbs include two 
groups — the Holland bulbs, such as crocus, 
hyacinth, tulip, narcissus, etc., which 
bloom very early in the spring, and the 
various summer blooming lillies, such as 
Lillium auratum (the Japanese gold- 
banded lily) and its beautiful varieties. 
Both require practically the same treat¬ 
ment ; soil well enriched with old rotted 
manure, and leaf-mould and sand added 
if the soil is at all heavy, and winter 
mulching. Varieties and details of plant¬ 
ing are described in another article. 
The spring planted bulbs — arums, ama¬ 
ryllis, cannas, callas, dahlias, gladioli, 
tuberoses, etc.—are not hardy, and must 
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