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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1909 
the double-nosed kind 
and see for yourself. 
For cutting, grow them 
in boxes with same 
treatment as suggested 
for tulips. Start them 
in October if possible. 
To get some flowers be¬ 
fore the hyacinths and 
tulips use some of the 
following. 
Paper White narcis¬ 
sus and Chinese lilies 
are quickly flowered. 
They can be grown in 
pots, pans or in water. 
For cutting, grow them 
in a box. This box 
Ihe result 01 lorcing three good bulbs of 
Poet’s Narcissus 
The crocus seems pre-eminently an out-door bulb, 
but if you will try named varieties for forcing 
you will be surprised at the excellent results 
gested for tulips. These 
singles are wonderfully 
beautiful and the price 
is moderate, the bulbs 
costing about two and 
one-half cents each by 
the hundred. The 
double sorts, of which 
Von Sion is the best, 
should be grown too. 
In choosing these, get 
double-nosed bulbs, as 
each will send up at 
least two flowers, and 
1 have seen these bulbs 
each send up as many 
as five. They cost a 
little more but are 
worth more than the 
extra price. Just try 
the ordinary kinds and 
idea is the best way where flowers are 
wanted with small available space. 
The bulbs do very well under the 
conditions and the Paper Whites par¬ 
ticularly. By successive plantings of 
the bulbs a display can be kept up 
for many weeks. The Paper White 
Grandiflora is the best one to use. It 
throws up spikes with as many as 
twenty flowers and the character of the 
flower is a great improvement over the 
commoner variety. The Chinese lilies 
are not to be compared with the Paper 
Whites, as a trial of the latter will con¬ 
vince anyone. Treat these like tulips, etc., with the exception 
of the storage; they need but little time in the dark. 
You can grow freesia without giving it a preliminary start in 
the cellar. Just pot it in a pan and start it in. growing. Put 
about ten in an eight-inch pan and hang it up in the sun. There 
are yellow and pure white flowers, both of which have a delicate 
fragrance. I f started early this will give you flowers by Christmas. 
Oxalis is another attractive house plant for the window. Pot 
them in a pan and hang in the window. Even if it had no flowers 
the foliage would commend it as an attraction, but the flowers of 
different shades and size make it doubly desirable. Bowiea 
and Buttercup are the best; one with large cloverlike foliage and 
large dark red blossoms, and the other with smaller foliage and 
yellow flowers. Both of these are to be recommended. The 
bulbs can be used for successive seasons. When flowering they 
need considerable water. There are other varieties but these 
two are the best for the house. 
The crocuses are ordinarily considered out of place anywhere 
but on the lawn, but in pans they certainly are attractive for 
house use. In pans put them down about an inch and store them 
away for a couple of months. This storing applies to the majority 
not freeze so hard that you cannot get through it when you want 
to get the boxes out. A great quantity of bloom can be had in this 
way with little trouble and room. Ask your dealer for early 
forcing tulips for this purpose. Don't make the mistake of 
trying to force old tulips. You may have an occasional success 
but it is not to be recommended. Put your old tulips out of 
doors in the border and you will get more satisfactory results. 
Pans of separate colors are always the best; mixed tulips out of 
doors will pass muster but they do not seem at home in pans. 
Get your tulips going before November first if possible and figure 
on giving them ten weeks in the ground before bringing to light. 
You can keep them back a long while under cover and thus keep 
up the show of bloom in the house for weeks. Bulbs brought into 
the house should not be put into too hot a room. This treat¬ 
ment just drags them into flower and makes a poorer plant and 
flower than if brought along in a cool place. 
Nothing is handsomer than a well grown pan of lilies-of-the- 
valley. Pot them an inch apart in a large pan and put them away 
in storage for a couple of months. 
Under this treatment they form sightly 
leaves but if forced under heat they 
simply send up the flower and pale 
unsightly leaves. A combination of 
tulips and lilies-of-the-valley in the 
same pan is one well worth trying. 
A collection of different sorts of 
narcissi will help balance the show, and 
as they are cheap, and very easy to 
raise, they commend themselves. I he 
single sorts in glorious shades of yellow 
— Emperor, Golden Spur, Horsfieldi, 
can be grown in pans or in boxes with 
about the same treatment as was sug- 
Paper White Narcissus is one of the best 
bulbs for forcing and it flowers quickly. 
The bulbs may be grown in pots, pans 
or in water 
