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ingly. It takes a week in a-warm room, 
from the time the spathe bursts to bring 
the buds inside into blow. 
Large, sound bulbs thus treated should 
give royal stalks bearing four to six, even 
eight blooms. A bulb can usually be 
counted on, so conditioned, for two stalks. 
If left undisturbed except for shifting to 
a bigger pot, and well fed, it will in a few 
years make you a clump of greenery 
starred with many rich crimson flowers. 
Each year there are offsets that soon come 
to be blooming bulbs. Occasionally a bulb 
divides its bloom, sending up one stalk in 
midwinter, the other in June. Pots win¬ 
tered in a cellar, or with very low heat, 
are apt to bloom only in summer—from 
June forward to August. They are tender 
north of thirty-three degrees and die of a 
hard freeze anywhere. 
Tree Wounds and Their Treatment 
(Continued from page 298) 
in practice be just as good as another. 
All this discussion of wound dressing 
has been necessary in order to make in¬ 
telligible the brief and definite general 
rules for the treatment of wounds which 
can now be laid down. 
Prune and make incisions, whenever 
possible, in late summer, fall and early 
winter. Small wounds on fast-growing 
wood dress with paint or tar. If in a year 
they show season checks give them a 
second coat. Moist wounds saturate with 
a non-filling disinfectant. After checking 
has taken place and the wound is dry, put 
on a thorough coat of a heavy dressing. 
Large wounds, in which the exposed wood 
is seasoned, paint with creosote, then 
cover with a heavy protective dressing. If 
necessary, reinforce the dressing, or cover 
the wound with metal. It is extremely de¬ 
sirable that all wounds be inspected yearly, 
and that all injuries to the coverings be 
repaired promptly. 
We come now to the different kinds of 
wounds trees receive, and the way to treat 
each of them. 
Trees receive mechanical injuries in a 
thousand different ways. It would be 
impossible to enumerate them; nor is it 
necessary, for the measures of prevention 
and repair are much the same. It will be 
necessary only to pick out a number of 
typical injuries and describe the correct 
treatment of each. 
The commonest kind of mechanical in¬ 
jury to the trunks of trees is the bark 
wound. Animals gnaw at the trees, 
vehicles run against them, gardeners bark 
them with lawnmowers, falling trees crush 
against them, farmers use them for fence- 
posts, carpenters drive nails into them, 
lovers cut hearts on them, and small boys 
try their little hatchets on their tender 
bark. For every kind of bark wound, no 
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