Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . to press the scale down up-right in some light, sandy compost, sothat its upper part is level with, or a littlebelow the surface of the compost; giveit then a slight watering, and in from oneto two months bulblets will be formed, asshown in figure 37. The best way is touse shallow boxes for the purpose, and be-gin the operation about the first of Febru- Fig. 37.—scale opary. Keep the boxes in a temjDcrature of lily. from 50° to 60°, either in the green-house or dwelling
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . to press the scale down up-right in some light, sandy compost, sothat its upper part is level with, or a littlebelow the surface of the compost; giveit then a slight watering, and in from oneto two months bulblets will be formed, asshown in figure 37. The best way is touse shallow boxes for the purpose, and be-gin the operation about the first of Febru- Fig. 37.—scale opary. Keep the boxes in a temjDcrature of lily. from 50° to 60°, either in the green-house or dwellinghouse, for there is no occasion for direct light, and the bulb-lets Avill be formed so that the boxes may be set out in theopen garden in May. It is best to plunge the boxes inthe soil, undisturbed, level with the surface, so that theywill have greater uniformity of moisture. Treated thus,the scales w411 make bulbs of the size of crocus by fall. Itis better not to disturb the bulbs in the fall, but merelycover the boxes, on the approach of severe weatlier, withthree or four inches of rough litter or leaves, allowing. 110 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. them to remain thus covered until spring. In spring, iftoo thick, they may be planted separately, and by fall ofthe second year will make flowering bulbs. There is another method of increasing the Lily, whichis simpler and equally expeditious. On lifting up in the fall an old plantthat has bloomed, it willbe observed that thelarge bulbs are formedbelow the roots that arethrown out from thestem at the surface of theground; after detachingthis mass of roots fromthe bulb, an examinationwill show that, imbed-ded among the roots ofevery plant, there arcfrom six to twelve smallbulbs, about the size ofhazel-nuts, as in figure38, in which fewer bulbsare shown than are usu-ally produced. Allowthese to remain attachedto the roots, and plantthe whole closely packedtogether in rows orbeds, as desirable, covering up on the approach ofwinter, as d
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