. Plant propagation : greenhouse and nursery practice . Plant propagation. 8o I'l,Ai\T I'M ll'AGATION but so far we have nu tunicate or scaly bulb industry comparable with that of Japan, Bermuda or Holland. Probably this is because until recently little attention has been devoted to the work. But good bulbs can be grown in this country. 120. The bulb industry in Washington State has been slow to de- velop, mainly because the rail cost of delivery in eastern markets is higher than the water cost from Europe. The United States De- partment of x^griculture has for several years been experimenting
. Plant propagation : greenhouse and nursery practice . Plant propagation. 8o I'l,Ai\T I'M ll'AGATION but so far we have nu tunicate or scaly bulb industry comparable with that of Japan, Bermuda or Holland. Probably this is because until recently little attention has been devoted to the work. But good bulbs can be grown in this country. 120. The bulb industry in Washington State has been slow to de- velop, mainly because the rail cost of delivery in eastern markets is higher than the water cost from Europe. The United States De- partment of x^griculture has for several years been experimenting in this industry and has published a progress report. Virginia grown narcissus, tested at the Department of Agriculture with European bulbs from three sources, gave decidedly better results. An Illinois experimenter is reported to have grown annually about 100,000 bulbs of tulip, narcissus and lily-of-the-valley on low well-drained, deep, black loam, heavily manured with stable inanure. The majority of the bulbs were somewhat smaller than the imported ones, but in earliness and ust. for forcing, size of flowers and length of stem were apparently as good, except lily-of-the-valley flowers, which excelled in size, substance and number of bells. 121. Division is a form of separation in which the parts do not naturally break apart but may be easily torn or cut from the parent plant (rhizomes, tubers, offsets, crowns). AMierc separatioa ends and divi- sion begins is hard to say, because they blend one into the other. 122. Rhizome, or root- stock, a subterranean stem, especially if uni- formly thick, for storage of plant food. 123. Stolon, a slender branch which naturally takes root or bears a bulb at its extremity, where it forms a new FIG. 70âBULB "SCOOPING" MACHINE i . t^ â 1 J plant. It IS produced Used by U. S. Government in Washington , , - , State bulb growing. abovc Or Ijclow Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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