The Garden Under Glass

n8 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS Nor would I endeavour to get tulips or daffodils before the New Year, as they rarely produce their best when quickly forced, and although we get the tulips to flower, the stems are too short to render them of any value as cut flowers. Bulbs may be forced in pans, bowls, pots or boxes. In a small way pots will be found most serviceable, as then a few pots may be brought on at a time. Five-inch or six-inch pots are most serviceable, and I would ad vise that as many Go Diagram 27.—1. Bulbs potted closely together. 2. Showing position of bulbs. 3. Pots covered with ashes or sand. 4. Removed from ashes and put in a cold frame when growth is an inch or two high. bulbs as can be accommodated be put in each pot. Usually four to six tulips may be put in a 5-inch pot without their touching. The pots being duly crocked and the drainage covered with moss or leaves, some soil is put in and made firm but not unduly so. The bulbs are then set in place so tbat when the potting is finished the points will just appear above the surface. Some press the bulbs into the soil, but this, I am sure, is a mistaken policy, and is the