Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-14

Chinese lilies are easily grown.
either in water and pebbles or in
soil. When grown in water, use four
or five bulbs in a bowl, resting their
nat cases on the pebbles, so that they
merely touch the water Keep q
lump of charcoal in the water to
sweeten it, and replace only what is
lost by evaporation. Set the bulbs in
a dark. cool place for two or three
weeks until a good root growth is
made. Then bring them to the sun
light 10 produce foliage and flowers.
Plant at intervals and have a success
sion of bloom.
Produce the infertile egg Infer
tile eggs are produced by hens hav-
ing no male birds with them. Re-
moving the male bird has no in
nuence on the number of eggs laid
by the hens.
The hens greatest producing
period is the first and second years.
and unless a hen is an exceptionally
good breeder she should be disposed
Of at the end of her second laying
season and before starting to molt.
The poets narcissus, jonquils and
daffodils are easily raised indoors,
either in shallow pans of soil or in
water. There is a tall. slender glass
vase that comes especially for bulbs,
and can afterwards be used for cut
flowers. Fill the glass with water,
drop in a lump of charcoal. and the
indentation near the top of the glass
will hold the bulb securely so that it
inst tDuCbes the wafer
Don't try to bring your summer
plants into the house. Instead make
cuttings from them; remove all but
the two upper leaves and insert half
the length into wet sand. Make these
cuttings, or slips, about three inches
long, cross cutting the end that goes
into the soil. Keep the cuttings in a
cool. dark place until root growth is
made, keeping the sand moist. Then
repot into garden loan and give
plenty Of sunlight and air and mod
crate water.
Don't throw away date seeds. Just
drop several into the good. rich soil
of a pot that contains another plant
and forget them. 1t may be three,
+ six or even nine months before the
give them a pot Of their own. If you
SOW these seeds occasionally during
/ the fall and winter you can have
various sized palms coming along
/ next year.
An economical and pretty thing to
grow for the window or table Is the
grapefruit Soak the seeds over night
before sowing. The leaves are dark
green, small, rounded and stiff. Use
fern dish or other low, fiat bowl
Pandanus or screw pine is a hand
SOME house plant for single speei-
men. The sword shaped leaves have
serrated edges and are often striped
with white. Coal gas will kill it over
night.
A good comnoet for bulbs is made OF
one part Par6Hn loan, one part wei
rotted manure and one part clear
sand Don't forget about securing
perfect drainage by using broker
stones etc. i'm the bottom of the pot
For bulbs use 1-inch stones and ashes
before putting in the soil mixture.
With most dealers a chick weigh
ing 4 pound and a half to a pount
and three quarters is about right
The sooner we let them go wher
they tip the scales at that figure tht
more money there will be in them
Give the last springs pullets al
the food that they will take and ust
TO advantage now, so that they may
begin laying at least by the first O
December.
Keep palm leaves washed. cut ou
dead growth and follow the genera
rules-moist heat, no coal gas, rich
loose earth; water with discretion
Like ferns, they need light, but no
sun, so a northern or eastern win
dow is best for them.
There is interesting variety amone
the palms, the most usual being thu
Chinese fan, the delicate fernliltC
coeos, the various gentias, the arecas
the phoenix and the fishtail palms
! All these can be raised in the house
Ferns cannot stand too much sun
| light nor spasmodic care in watering
nor coal gas. They love moist hea
and leaf mold in which to grow. Tht
family that includes the Boston ant
, other sword-leafed ferns is excellent
One called the Ostrich plume" /.
very handsome. Holly ferns, al
their name indicates, have holly-lilS,
leaves and are very attractive.
When planting bulbs i'm pots use tn,
fiat, pan-shaped ones, putting al
many bulbs i'm each pot as it will hold
New pots must be soaked for severa
hours to make them less porous, ant
old ones must be scrubbed clean o
slime and moss.
Some people have wonderful result
with maiden hair ferns. There is
new one that is harder than most o
the maiden hairs and is called th
glory fern. There Is a broad-leafet
fern known as the "bird's nest" tina
is interesting, and another that i
beautifully cut and wavy and of al
unusual color, metallic blue. Th
botanical name is polypodium glau
cum cristatpm. Then there Is tn