POTTING HYACINTHS.
As with most things, there is a right and a wrong way of potting hyacinths. To the amateur it may appear of small moment, but if a bulb is so potted that the top is below the soil, it will be found that when in flower the plant
has a tendency to fall over—not only that, hut the top scales of the bulb dry and show signs of decay. Put the bulb in so that it is half an inch below the surface of the soil. Stand, the pot where it can be “plunged” or covered with two-or three inches of clean ashes, sand, shell, or coconut fibre. When the
shoot has grown about two inches long the pot should be taken out of the plunging material and exposed to light, diffused at first, and grown on in the usual manner. The cultivation of bulbs in pots is not common with us, but where a glasshouse or suitable verandah is available the growing of bidbs in pots is very entertaining and instructive. A further method of “ plunging ” is to invert a flower pot over the bulb and cover it with old leave.; or straw.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 23 (Supplement)
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196POTTING HYACINTHS. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 23 (Supplement)
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