. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . s the common practice with most hardyspecies to allow the scales to remain in the original flatsduring summer and to cover them the next fall, allowingthem to remain outdoors over winter. The succeedingspring they are shifted into a bed or border, and by the next fall —having hadtwo summers growth—most species will beready for permanentplanting in the flowerborder. A bulblet is a smallbulb borne entirelyabove ground, usuallyin the axil of a leaf orin the examples oc-cur in the tiger lily andin top oni
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants . s the common practice with most hardyspecies to allow the scales to remain in the original flatsduring summer and to cover them the next fall, allowingthem to remain outdoors over winter. The succeedingspring they are shifted into a bed or border, and by the next fall —having hadtwo summers growth—most species will beready for permanentplanting in the flowerborder. A bulblet is a smallbulb borne entirelyabove ground, usuallyin the axil of a leaf orin the examples oc-cur in the tiger lily andin top onions. Inthe former instance,the bulblets are directtransformations of buds, while in theonion they are trans-formed flowers. It isimpossible to draw any sharp line of separation betweenbulblets and buds. In some plants, certain buds detachthemselves and fall to the ground to multiply the these buds vegetate before tliey fall from theplants, as in the case of various begonias and ferns. Forpurposes of propagation, bulblets are treated in the same. 25. Gladiolus corm (x>^). CORMS AND CORMELS. JI way as bulbels, and like them, they reproduce the varietyupon which they grow. They will develop into full-grown bulbs in from one to three years, according to thespecies. A corm is a bulb-like organ which is solid examples occur in the gladiolus and crocus. Cor-mous plants are multiplied in essentially the same manneras bulbous s;)ecies. As a rule, a new corm (or sometimestwo or more) is produced each year above the old one, andthis commonly bears flowers the following season. Thisrenewal is well shown in the gladiolus. Fig. 25. The illus-tration shows a gladiolus bottom, half size, when taken upin November. At the base are seen the withered remainsof the corm which was planted in the spring, and above itthe new corm, which will furnish bloom the following sea-son. A number of cormels or spawn have also ap-peared about the base of the new corm.
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