. Autumn catalogue : 1903. Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. BULBS, as popularly understood, is a term designating a class of flowering and ornamental-leaved plants in their dormant condition, the flowers, foliage and roots having completed their growth, ripened off and died away, leaving a fleshy, bulbous root, tuber, corm, rhizome or pip, as the various types of bulbs are botanically named, but in all of which there were formed, after flowering and before maturity, new sets of flowers, leaves
. Autumn catalogue : 1903. Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. BULBS, as popularly understood, is a term designating a class of flowering and ornamental-leaved plants in their dormant condition, the flowers, foliage and roots having completed their growth, ripened off and died away, leaving a fleshy, bulbous root, tuber, corm, rhizome or pip, as the various types of bulbs are botanically named, but in all of which there were formed, after flowering and before maturity, new sets of flowers, leaves, etc., which are protected and sustained within the succulent bulb for the next growing and flowering period. It is during this dormant state of rest, lasting, approximately, for from three to six months, that. A "FLAT" OF FORCED TULIPS, bulbs are taken out of the ground—sold, shipped and re- planted, like so many potatoes—after which, conditions being congenial, the incipient plant and flowers develop with as much perfection as if the bulb had remained in its original environment. Bulbous Flowering Plants (Bulbs) produce remarkably beautiful flowers, unsurpassed in many varieties by any other plants in the floral kingdom, and, besides, many of them are delightfully fragrant. There is a peculiar charm ingrowing bulbous plants ; they comprise such an endless variety in habit, form, size, color, and are adaptable for so many purposes; many of them flower equally well under either garden or house culture. Among other merits of bulbs is the certainty and per- fection with which they bloom and their ease of culture. Bulbs for Flowering in the House and Greenhouse.— There is no class of plants that gives more satisfaction for this purpose than bulbous plants (bulbs), and with so little skill gives such magnificent results. They are easily managed, and need occupy no space in the window or greenhouse excepting when in bud and bloom. Under suitable treatment they flowe
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