BULB-GROWING INDOORS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 11

BULB-GROWING INDOORS

This is a most fascinating hohby, inexpesive and clean, with just as good a result as can be had by outisde or greenhouse cultivation. To ensure success the following directions should be carefully followed and operations can commence any time during Fehruary and Marcb. iSecure a china bowl or fancy glazea flower pot and parbly fill with moss bbr«i. This niay be had from any of the looal storekeepers. Next place in the bowl as many bulbs as will comfortably fit allowing about lin. between each; then fill up the spaces between the bulbs with the fibre, packing it lightly and allowing just tlie neck of tlie bulbs to be visible. Thorougbly damp the fibre and place bowl in a dark room or linen closet until they have sprouted about lin. Never keep the bulbs in a dark situation longer than this as they are apt to become too weak and the growth becomes yellow and sickly. Remove to a semi-shaded position and about a week later place in the window or wkere they are intended to grow. The more the plants are exposed to tlie light the sturdier and liealthier they will grow. During growth, the fibre should always be kept moist and the bowl constantly turned round to prevent the plants bending to the light. The following bulbs are easily grown in the above method; Hycinths, doubie and single, jonquills, yellow and white; tulips, all varieties ; scillas or wood liyacinths; daffodils, emperor, golden bell, M. J. Berkley, and lachenalias.