. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. ADVENTITIOUS BULBELS. 29 times hollowed out from the under side for half or more of their depth. This operation is sometimes performed later in the season than the other, and precaution should be exercised that the bulbs do not become too moist, else they will rot. Hollowed bulbs should be well dried before being planted. Both methods of preparing hyacinth bulbs are shown in Figs. 21 and 22, which are adapted from the Gardener's Chronicle. Fig. 23 shows a portion of the base of a cross-cut bu
. The nursery-book; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants ... Gardening; Plant propagation. ADVENTITIOUS BULBELS. 29 times hollowed out from the under side for half or more of their depth. This operation is sometimes performed later in the season than the other, and precaution should be exercised that the bulbs do not become too moist, else they will rot. Hollowed bulbs should be well dried before being planted. Both methods of preparing hyacinth bulbs are shown in Figs. 21 and 22, which are adapted from the Gardener's Chronicle. Fig. 23 shows a portion of the base of a cross-cut bulb, with the adventitious bulbels. The mutilated bulbs are stored during summer, and are planted in fall or spring. The wounded bulbs produce very little foliage, but at the end of the first season the bulbels will have formed. The bulbels are then -separated and planted by themselves in prepared beds. Several years are required for the bulbels to mature into flowering bulbs. Some of the strongest ones may produce flowering bulbs in three years, but some of them, especially those obtained from the hollowed bulbs, will not mature short of six years. This method of propagating hyacinths is confined almost entirely to Holland. The scales of bulbs are often employed to multiply scarce varieties. From ten to thirty of the thicker scales may be removed from the outside of the bulb without seri- ous injury to it. These are treated in the same manner as single-eye cuttings. They are usually han- dled in flats or propagating - frames, and are pressed perpendicularly into a light and loose soil — half sharp sand and half leaf mold — for nearly or quite their entire length, or they may be scattered in damp moss. Keep the soil sim- ply moist, and for hardy and half-hardy species keep the temperature rather low — from 45° to . 60° Slight bottom heat may sometimes be scale (xi). given to advantage. In from three to ten weeks. Cross-cut bulb. Please note that these images are extracte
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