October, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
237 
these fill in the socls, broken up, which 
have been removed from the surface, and 
then add the best of the soil which was 
taken out mixed with heavy manure or 
coarse bone, or both. The surface four 
or five inches, which should come three or 
four inches above the ground level, should 
be of good, clean loam, without manure or 
fertilizer. By spring the bed should have 
settled to an inch or more below the 
ground level and be in ideal condition af¬ 
ter a light forking up for planting. Mak¬ 
ing the rose garden is one of the oppor¬ 
tunities for fall work most frequently 
overlooked, and one of the most import¬ 
ant. 
Another opportunity often neglected is 
that of planting bulbs for winter bloom¬ 
ing indoors. Pots, bulb pans or flats may 
be used. The soil should be rich, but 
light and friable. A mixture of leaf-mold, 
well-rotted manure and sandy loam, or 
sand and loam, if the latter is heavy, 
makes a good medium. The bulbs avail¬ 
able for use in this way are many, includ¬ 
ing many of the best varieties of tulips, 
narcissi and hyacinths, and such beautiful 
lilies as the Bermuda Easter lily and 
Longiflorum. The latter, however, require 
a much longer period of growth; they are 
planted usually in six-inch pots, and left 
in the pit to make roots until November 
or December. The other bulbs are placed 
in pots or flats, separated by spaces equal 
to about their own diameters, and deep 
enough to be slightly below the surface 
after a thorough watering. After planting 
and a thorough watering they should be 
stored in the cellar or some similar cool 
dark place, or buried several inches deep 
with coal-ashes in a shallow trench or a 
frame, until they have the pots or boxes 
filled with roots. If the latter method is 
used cover the pots or boxes with a mulch, 
after freezing weather, to make them more 
get-at-able when wanted for bringing in¬ 
to the house to bloom. They may be 
brought in in relays, thus furnishing a 
supply of fresh blooms all winter long, 
with very little expense and not a great 
deal of work. 
As a final precaution, after the planting 
is done, see that everything is plainly and 
properly tagged. Don’t trust yourself to 
remember, or there will come a day next 
spring when you would give a great deal 
to be positive just where this or that per¬ 
ennial was placed. Above all, have the 
pots or flats of bulbs plainly marked, so 
you will know where to get what you 
want. If they are to be buried under ashes 
or soil and a mulch, each pot or box should 
be marked with a label or piece of shingle 
long enough to come up well above the 
covering, allowing for a few inches of 
snow. 
No matter how little you can do this 
first fall, try to get the fall planting habit. 
It will double .your gardening joys and op¬ 
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