House and Garden 
FORCING BULBS AND BULBS ADAPTED 
TO HOUSE CULTURE 
{Continued from page 91.) 
tuberose — all very desirable plants for 
amateur culture—are generally classed 
among the bulbs because their flowers 
resemble those of the bulb family in so 
many respects, but neither of the four 
has bulbous roots. Their roots are of 
a fleshy, half-tuberous character. 
The calla is a plant everybody ad¬ 
mires, and almost every grower of house- 
plants includes it in her collection, but 
very often the complaint is made that it 
produces leaves and few, if any, flowers. 
I am inclined to think that this comes 
about, in most cases, because its owner 
keeps it growing, or attempting to grow, 
the year round. We have very few 
plants that will do well under such treat¬ 
ment. 
They must have a resting-spell some¬ 
time during the year. This is in accord 
with a general law of Nature, and 
we cannot expect the plants in our win¬ 
dows to flourish if we ignore it. If the 
calla is put out of doors in June, and left 
there until September, turned down on 
its side, it will lose all its leaves, and one 
would quite naturally think it must be 
dead. But an examination of its thick 
root will convince you to the contrary. 
Repot it in a soil composed of equal 
parts loam, muck or other soil rich in 
vegetable matter, and old manure, give 
it water, and in a short time it will send 
up great, healthy leaves such as you 
never see on a plant kept growing the 
year round, and it will give you fine 
flowers at intervals throughout the sea¬ 
son. The calla is a very accommodating 
plant, and often blooms well in winter 
after having been kept growing all 
summer, if liberally supplied with liquid 
fertilizer. Many persons treat it as if 
it were an aquatic, and keep its roots 
standing in water, but I have never seen 
good flowers from a plant so treated. 
The continuous use of hot water I con¬ 
sider harmful. It weakens the plant, 
and makes it lax and flabby in tissue. 
The agapanthus, often called lily of 
the palace, has foliage resembling that of 
the amaryllis, though longer and nar¬ 
rower. It sends up a flower-stalk three 
or four feet tall in summer, bearing an 
immense cluster of lily-shaped flowers of 
a dainty shade of porcelain or dark 
lavender blue, with stripes of a lighter 
shade running through the petal. 
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