MANAGEMENT OF HYACINTHS. 
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house till May, and then removing them to a sheltered situation 
out of doors ; with the ordinary attention to watering and training, 
they will form handsome specimens, and flower well towards the 
close of the season. In the second year, however, they will be 
much finer; the shoots should be cut back before they commence 
their seasonal growth, and by shifting the plants in February, 
and encouraging them through the first stages of their advance, 
the flowers will be produced in April or May, and a succession 
may be expected throughout the summer. No plant is of easier 
management, and few exhibit a more grateful return for extra 
marks of attention. 
We fancy Mr Oates has now in his hands the means of origi¬ 
nating many new and pleasing varieties of this plant, for, doubt¬ 
less, rosea will, if seeded, again produce others different from 
itself; and we may, therefore, reasonably expect several new 
features in the ornamenting both of greenhouse and flower 
garden. We hail his first production as a very charming plant, 
the value of which is greatly enhanced by the probable hope it 
holds forth of future acquisitions. 
Editor. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF HYACINTHS AND OTHER 
FORCING BULBS. 
There are few engaged in a pursuit so varying, and with such 
multitudinous claims on the attention, allowing only limited in¬ 
tervals for deliberation, as is the case in horticulture, but will 
acknowledge the benefit of a timely hint bearing on a matter of 
so much consequence as that which heads this paper, and, was 
apology necessary, mention might be made of those who attempt 
for the first time this year to grow their own forced flowers, for 
whom, indeed, the following remarks are chiefly intended. 
Hyacinths form what may be termed the staple of our earliest 
blossoms; they may be had from December to April in constant 
succession, with, perhaps, less trouble than would attend the 
culture of any other plant for so long a period at the most incle¬ 
ment part of the year ; hence their value and universal adoption. 
All bulbous-rooted plants of like nature delight in a rich porous 
