. Agriculture for beginners. from cuttings of the are simply the lower ends of the leaves of a plantwrapped tightly around one another and inclosing thebud that makes the future flower stalk. The hyacinth,narcissus, and our common garden onion are examplesof bulbous plants. Theflat part at the bottomof the bulb is the stem ofthe plant reduced to aflat disk, and betweeneach leaf on this flatstem there is a bud justas there is above grounda bud at the base of aleaf. These buds on thestem of the bulb rarelygrow, however, unlessforced to do so artifi-cially. The bulbs may,however, be g
. Agriculture for beginners. from cuttings of the are simply the lower ends of the leaves of a plantwrapped tightly around one another and inclosing thebud that makes the future flower stalk. The hyacinth,narcissus, and our common garden onion are examplesof bulbous plants. Theflat part at the bottomof the bulb is the stem ofthe plant reduced to aflat disk, and betweeneach leaf on this flatstem there is a bud justas there is above grounda bud at the base of aleaf. These buds on thestem of the bulb rarelygrow, however, unlessforced to do so artifi-cially. The bulbs may,however, be greatly in-creased by making thesebuds grow and formother bulbs. In increas-ing hyacinths, the ma-tured bulbs are dug in the spring and the under part ofthis flat stem is carefully scraped away to expose the baseof the buds. They are then put in heaps and covered withsand. In a few weeks all the buds will form little gardener plants the whole to grow together oneseason, after which they are separated and grown into. Fig. 234. A ClematisCopyright, 1903, Doubleday, Page & Co. 2/2 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS full-sized bulbs for sale. Other bulbs, like the narcissusor daffodil, form new bulbs that separate without beingscraped. There are some other plants which have undergroundparts that are commonly called bulbs but which are notbulbs at all; for example, the gladiolus and the caladium,or elephants ear. Their underground parts are bulblikein shape but are really solid flattened stems with eyeslike the underground stem of the Irish potato. Theseparts are called conns. They may be cut into pieces likethe potato and each part will grow. The dahlia makes a mass of roots looking greatly likesweet potatoes, but there are no eyes on them as thereare on the sweet potato, the only eyes being on the baseof the stem to which they are joined. They may besprouted like sweet potatoes and soft cuttings made of
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