. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. multiplier or potato onion (Fig. 45) is an example. If the built is eut across, it is found to have two or more "hearts" or cores (Fig. 46). When it has been planted a week, each core or part begins to separate (Fig. 47), and there are soon as many onions as there are cores. Potato onions can be bought of seedsmen. They are used for the raising of early onions. 81. Solid bulb-like parts are known as corms. These usually have a loose covering, but the interior is not made up of scales or plates. Of such are gladiolus and crocus corms (


. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. multiplier or potato onion (Fig. 45) is an example. If the built is eut across, it is found to have two or more "hearts" or cores (Fig. 46). When it has been planted a week, each core or part begins to separate (Fig. 47), and there are soon as many onions as there are cores. Potato onions can be bought of seedsmen. They are used for the raising of early onions. 81. Solid bulb-like parts are known as corms. These usually have a loose covering, but the interior is not made up of scales or plates. Of such are gladiolus and crocus corms (Figs. 48, 49). Corms multiply by cormels 47. Beginning to separate into its parts Each part will be a little 48. Corm of crocus. Nat. size. 49. Section of a crocus corm. or small corms, as bulbs do by bulbels. Fig. GO shows an old gladiolus corm on which three new corms have grown. 82. We have seen that thickened parts may serve one. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan Co.


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