. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 2595. Round-petaled Tulips in a five-inch pot (XM)- soon as they appear; if not, nearly the whole of the plant's energies would go to the development of the seed, ânature's method of reproduction,âand the bulbs produced would be small and with but few or no offsets. Fr
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 2595. Round-petaled Tulips in a five-inch pot (XM)- soon as they appear; if not, nearly the whole of the plant's energies would go to the development of the seed, ânature's method of reproduction,âand the bulbs produced would be small and with but few or no offsets. From nature's standpoint the bulb is of consequence as a means of reproduction or perpetuation of the species only in case of failure of seed production. By cutting the flower-stems as sufBciently developed to show, th variety, and the plant's ennrfrips reproduction by off^it^- â A-l;i,-li. ! freely produced. - in this respect. The in i nually; that is, the imi i : ber of offsets, which mu i -in before they can be sold as lirst ol By the cutting of the flower-stt of development is materially shot mature at least four weeks earliei if permitted to matun-. i in ; be safelv taken up and iliir,! ,,ir \ the time" the stems an- .m. Wh. n flowers are cut it will not do to l, ..11 ; they must be carrii'd som.^ where Imlljs are not to be grown. If h-fi H|...n til.' they will, as the Dutch say,"make the s,.il -1. k. ;. ^..iiiid. healthy bulbs cannot again be .1 .11 11 until after a succession of grain and grass, v. Tuliijs must not be returned to the same soil annually, a rotation of at least two other crops being necessary to the production of sound, vigorous bulbs. A hundred thousand salable bulbs can be grown on a single acre. They require three years from the sets. The first year double that number can be grown. The average yield or output will be 6G,000 bulbs to the acre. In this country where land a
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