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For roots.40 degrees 
For stems and leaves. ... 50 
For the best flowers. 60 
For quick development.. . 70 
The best showing is made by having 
several bulbs planted together. These 
should all be of the same variety, for if 
mixed bulbs are used they will flower at 
different times and call for diversified 
treatment, and some will have reached the 
shabby stage before others have bloomed. 
A six-inch pot will hold a half-dozen ordi¬ 
nary bulbs, as there is no harm in crowd¬ 
ing them. Single bulbs in three-inch pots 
are pretty and all-sufficient for experi¬ 
ments, but not nearly so decorative as a 
half-dozen in. a larger pot. 
Bulbs lose their vitality when kept for 
late plotting. The best results come from 
ordering early and planting immediately. 
October is a good all-round month for the 
plotting of bulbs. They require fresh air, 
but cannot stand draughts. Dust also is 
detrimental, and at the blooming stage 
they demand generous watering. One 
authority goes so far as to say the soil 
should be kept as wet as mud during this 
period; this is especially applicable to 
narcissus. 
Those bulbs that can be grown espe¬ 
cially well in sand are the following: 
Orange Phcenix. —The perfect blossoms 
on this bulb would have been a revelation 
grown in any sort of soil, but were doubly 
remarkable as having sprung from plain 
sand. In size, substance, color and shape 
they were beyond criticism, measuring 
nine or ten inches in circumference. They 
were potted the last of Octber, left in the 
cellar about ten weeks for root growth, and 
bloomed two months after bringing to the 
light. 
Grand Monarque. — This is another 
splendid bulb, and that grown in pure sand 
was a worthy specimen. This variety is 
of unusual size and vigor, being almost as 
large as a medium-sized Chinese lily bulb, 
but much more solid. The flowers, too, 
are like the lily, but more waxy and with 
a lighter yellow cup. They grow a dozen 
in a group; those that grew in sand meas¬ 
ured one and three-quarter inches in di¬ 
ameter. Potted November 17, the roots 
were well formed by the last week in Janu¬ 
ary, and the height of bloom was reached 
at the end of March. Unlike the Chinese 
lily, it is very slow to develop, but it is so 
attractive that it pays for the waiting. 
Dutch Roman Hyacinth. —This bulb 
formed a normal flower-head of good size 
and quality with no more hearty diet than 
sand. This type is smaller than the regu¬ 
lar Dutch hyacinth and much more solid 
and compact than the Roman hyacinth. 
It was potted the middle of November and 
bloomed the first and second week in 
March. 
Double Roman Narcissus. — This is a 
quick-growing, many-flowered variety, and 
can easily be brought into bloom for 
Christmas. It throve on a diet of sand 
and quite equaled the same kind grown in 
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