. The American botanist : a monthly journal for the plant lover. Botany. NOTE and COMMENT Tulip Growing in America.—It is common for dealers to tell their customers that tulip bulbs soon run out and that new bulbs should be purchased each year if the best results are desired. From the standpoint of the dealer it is doubtless very desirable that flower lovers lay in a new supply of bulbs annually, but as a matter of fact, just as good tulips can be grown in America from good stock as anywhere else, as sev- eral growers have already discovered. It is to be understood that when tulips or any othe
. The American botanist : a monthly journal for the plant lover. Botany. NOTE and COMMENT Tulip Growing in America.—It is common for dealers to tell their customers that tulip bulbs soon run out and that new bulbs should be purchased each year if the best results are desired. From the standpoint of the dealer it is doubtless very desirable that flower lovers lay in a new supply of bulbs annually, but as a matter of fact, just as good tulips can be grown in America from good stock as anywhere else, as sev- eral growers have already discovered. It is to be understood that when tulips or any other bulbs are forced, either by being grown in w-ater during wdnter or hurried into bloom while planted in the earth in flower pots, the strength of the specimen is very much reduced, but if tulips are allowed to come into bloom naturally in the open ground and to finish their regular period of growth, they do not run out. On the contrary, they increase in numbers and maintain full sized blooms. There seems to be a regular cycle of development in these plants. When very small bulbs are planted, they commonly do not flower the first season, but make bulbs of blooming size for the following year. After flowering these bulbs develop one or more good sized bulbs each of which will produce flowers in succeeding years. In a good season, however, the bulbs may become too large; that is, they get so big that they begin to develop small bulbs in the axils of the bulb scales and the next season they break up into several smaller ones which must be again planted and grown to maturity as before. The rational way of growing tulips, then, is to plant the good sized bulbs for flowers and at the same time plant the smaller bulbs for. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Binghamton, N. Y. : Willard N. Clute &
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