The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-02

splendid tulips in a soap box. Do as You
like about it. The parrot and bybloemens
varieties put in because of their fantastic
and-in the iatter-delicate beauty, both
OF form and coloring. And the gesneriana,
although rather tall for house culture in
mass. will make a splendid effect in a
limited display, lifting its enormous GRIM
son scarlet bell near the album and orni-
thogalum in single specimens.
The Ornithogalum produces great clus-
tiers of pearly white flowers with jet black
centers, deliciously fragrant. which en-
dure surprisingly. Plant your three bulbs
in separate four-inch pots, at Intervals of
two weeks and they will give you con-
slant bloom for at least two months. Or
you can put the three together in q six
inch pot and have all their sweetness at
once. A five-inch pot will accommodate
four Roman hyacinths. three jonquils, or
six to eight crocus bulbs. Give your GRO
cuses abundant light, but carefully keep
fire heat away from them. The white
flowers of Album n. are borne in clusters
on stems twenty inches high and last very
well. Plant in October-three to five in a
five-inch poland they will be out in
January. Nothing will be more likely to
please you than the freesias. Their pure
wAite flowers have delicious perfume,
remain fresh s long time and are borne in
great abundance. You can grow from
four to six bulbs in a hve-inch pot, and by
planting at intervais-in different pots, of
course-may prolong their season until
spring.
Ixias, bahamas and sparaxis afford an
infinite variety of the brightest colors
Imaginable, often in strange and always
beautiful combinations--white, scarlet,
rose, crimson, pink, magenta. gold, blue
etc, there being very many sorts OF each.
They all need rich soil, plenty OF sunshine,
and are not SO impatient of heat As the
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III q fye-inch pot. And ranunculus il like
unto them in its wide range of splendid
color, although OF wholly different form,
assuming the rose shape, while they are
fiat stars. open bells, gladiolus-like, etc.
Five of the bulbs so in five-inch pot.
You may not get the iris to bloom for you
the first season, bat l have picked out the
grandest variety to rejoice you if it does.
or reward amply your patience II
you have to wait until next year
to see il. Whether it blooms or
not, do not take il out of its pot. Like
. lilies in the garden, it must not be med
died with. When il blooms you will have
the most magnificent Hover that grows,
with the possible exception of certain
orchids. SIX To eight inches in diameter,
presenting a bewildering glory of COM
| bined diversified tints and shades--cri M
son, blue. white, rose. lilac. violet, iaven =
der and gold. BY ali means try the Iris,
even If il is not easy. We always achieve
most in striving for that which is difficult
to obtain. The Chinese sacred lily you
grow in clear water. supporting the bulb
by piling clean pebbles about. 1t Is ex-
tremely easy of cultivation. and its lux
urious abundance of handsome foli-
age and beautiful. delicately frag-
rant white and yellow blossoms are
sure TO please. I have found it good
10 cut three deep gashes in the
sides near the top of each bulb. having
learned that trick from 8 wise Mongol who
seemed to nave great luck with his loss
flowers" 1t gives a great deal more flower
stems, and the bulb would be no good for
q second season. anyway.
Unless you have a greenhouse i'll which
you can accurately regulate the tempera-
ture and maintain a bumid atmosphere,
do not attempt the culture of the amaryl.
lis the cyciamen or ii!hes.
Finally. the cooler You keep the tenn
perature about your bulbous plants when
they are in bloom, SO long as it does not
get down to the frost line. the longer they
will keep IN bloom and the better they
Will be-