. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). THE BULB BOOK produce freaks. All classes of plants vary in the same way at some time or another, and are regarded as commonplace, though curious, by those who grow them. Many instances of roots, stems, leaves, sepals, .petals, stamens, pistils, and ovaries having been distorted in some way have been recorded, not only in
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). THE BULB BOOK produce freaks. All classes of plants vary in the same way at some time or another, and are regarded as commonplace, though curious, by those who grow them. Many instances of roots, stems, leaves, sepals, .petals, stamens, pistils, and ovaries having been distorted in some way have been recorded, not only in the late Dr Masters' work' on Vegetable Teratology, but also in the pages of the horticultural and botanical press and journals. As might be expected, the flowers, being usually the most conspicuous and ornamental parts of a plant, have been noticed most frequently, but other parts, especially the flower-stems, have also been noted from time to time. To give a few instances:— Flower-Stems.—In some instances, notably in Liliums especially L. auratum), the ordinary roundish stem is frequently broadened out into a thin, flattish body, an examination of which shows at once that several stems have fused or united together, and as each one produces its own blossoms, the result is an enormous mass of bloom. This fusion or union of several stems into one is called fasci- ation, and is quite a common feature in the ordinary garden Asparagus. Instances of fasciation have also been noted in the flower- stems of Agapanthus umbel- latus,Oxalis crenata, and several florists' Tulips. In the case of the Tulip, there is usually only one flower on one stalk, but by fusion or fasciation, examples bearing as many as seven flowers have been met with— the stems being united part of the way, and then branching towards the top. Fig. 23 shows a Tulip having three flower - stems, more or less fused together. In some Liliaceous and Iridaceous plants bulbils (see p. 21) form naturally in the axils o
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