Now has begun the season when the plants are potted, ready for their winter quarters. Everything that is to be kept in a growing condition should be properly prepared early in September. Then there are the tender summer bulbs, such as gloxinias, tydeas, achimenes, and others - all these should be • left in the pot of earth in which they have bloomed, and when winter has fully set in and they have dried nicely, they may be safely kept in a warm closet. If no closet is convenient, prepare a box by papering the inside and covering the outside with cretonne, making a cushion on the lid. This may be placed in the sitting room and closely packed with pots, one placed on top of the other. They will keep well until time to bring them forth in spring. Examine them once in a while to see that they have not become too dry. Be careful not to let frost catch the tuberoses. I like to dig these on a dry day, and after removing the tops, I allow them to dry thoroughly, then pack them in paper bags and keep them in this handy box. I always keep tigridias in this same way. We may leave the gladiolus in the ground as late as the last of October, if pleasant, especially if we have planted them late for display at fairs. Time must be given them for ripening well, or they will not keep.

I have dug them after the ground was frozen a little, and have placed them on wire sieves to dry, carrying them indoors at night. These sieves, or trays with a wire screen in the bottom, were the remains of a corn-drying establishment which had its day in this vicinity, and in the course of time the sieves fell to me, and I find them the most convenient thing for drying gladiolus I have ever yet seen. I just put the label in, and then dig the row of that name, place them on the sieve and have no more trouble until they are ready to be put in bags, labeled and hung overhead in a dry frost proof cellar. I have tried every place, I guess, for keeping gladiolus, and have never found a better place than a dry cellar. If kept in a room where there is fire, they will dry out and be utterly worthless. This self-same cellar is filled to overflowing in winter with all sorts of tender shrubs. Tea roses and vines clamber over the wall; chrysanthemums bloom until Christmas. The windows admit plenty of light. Box after box of fuschias and geraniums are carefully packed away on the shelves, and come out in fine condition in the spring. The geraniums are dug and packed in boxes of earth the first week in September, and allowed to stand out doors until cold weather sets in.

Don't allow them to be too wet when set away, and be just as careful not to let them become dust-dry during the winter. You will find this a better plan for keeping geraniums than hanging the poor things up by the feet. Early in spring they may be brought up and started into growth in a cool room. Do not water much until growth has commenced. - M. R. W.