Excerpt from J. H. Punchard's Descriptive Catalogue, (With Directions for Cultivation) Of Dutch and Other Splendid Flowering Bulbs Select such as show a disposition to start, for the first planting, say about the middle of September. Successive plantings may be made fortnightly until the first of Janu ary. Your first plantings will then be in bloom about Christmas, and your last in May. From the middle of October to the end of November is early enough for planting out of doors. By covering the ground with straw or stable manure to keep the frost out, they may be successfully planted as late as January. After the early part of December, Hyacinths intended for glasses would flower better if first planted in pots and when half grown turned out and the roots freed from the soil, which is easily done in tepid water, and afterwards grown in glasses as intended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.