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Hortus Second (Bailey). A Concise Dictionary of Gardening. This 778-page volume 
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A Southern Garden, by Elizabeth Lawrence, a handbook for the Middle South. 
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Enjoy Your House Plants. Excellent handbook of window gardening by Dorothy 
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Begonias And How To Grow Them. Bessie Raymond Buxton. Invaluable in growing 
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American Orchid Culture. Edward A. White. This is a complete handbook of 
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Greenhouse Gardening For Everyone. Ernest Chabet. Important factors are noted 
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Tuberous-Rooted Begonias and Their Culture. George Otten, veteran grower of 
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Bulbs For Beauty. Charles H. Mueller. 296 pages, illustrated. Experienced gardeners 
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How to Grow Orchids. By Cecil Houdyshel. A 12-page pamphlet, no illustrations, 
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The African Violet, Saintpaulia. Helen Van Pelt Wilson. The first and still the only 
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BULBS AND ORCHIDS AS POT PLANTS 
Bulbs and orchids are most desirable as pot plants. They may be grown in the 
living room, kitchen, a light basement room or in a small greenhouse quite as well as 
in a large commercial greenhouse. 
The following bulbs are recommended for forcing in pots: Agapanthus, Amaryllis 
species and hybrids, Amarcrinum, Anemones, Clivia, Dutch Iris, Elisena, Haemanthus, 
Hymenocallis, Ismene, Liliums, Marica, Nerines, Oxalis, Ranunculus, Sprekelia, 
Tulbaghia, Veltheimia, Zantedeschia (Calla Lilies). 
Nearly all bulbs may be grown in pots. Crinums do well but require a large space. 
Gladiolus and Watsonias are tall for the purpose, but they are forced in commercial 
greenhouses. Brunsvigia rosea varieties, Lycoris species and a few others bloom only the 
first year in pots. After that they seldom bloom again. 
Plants for pots. Orchids are supremely desirable and any one can grow them. We 
have had reports from customers who, without previous experience, have grown and 
flowered hybrid Cattleyas in their kitchen and have grown them on for two or more 
years. Billbergias are unusual, beautiful and easy. Saintpaulia, African Violets, have 
always been popular with a few. Their recent resurgence in popularity is justly winning 
a place for them in everyone’s collection. We are offering them in an entirely new 
manner—in self-watering pots. Violets too can be flowered in pots in a cool room. 
POTTING DIRECTIONS 
Bulbs bloom better in pots that are not too large. A 24” Amaryllis will do well in 
a 6” or 7” pot. Many use a 5” size but I prefer to give as large a pot as will be favorable 
to flowering. Give larger or smaller bulbs of any sort, pots in proportion to this size, 
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