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cate they may be planted in pots or flats and be treated about 

 the same as single eye cuttings. In some lilies the bulbels are 

 allowed to remain attached and the whole 

 mass is planted in the fall in close drills. 

 Sometimes the larger lily bulbels will 

 produce flowers the following season, but 

 they usually require the whole of the 

 season in which to complete their growth. 

 The second fall they are ready to be per- 

 manently planted. Bulbels o f some 

 plants require a longer time in which 

 to mature into bulbs. 



Bulbels are often produced by an in- Fig . I2 . C ut Hyacinth Bulb, 

 jury to the bulb. Growth of stem and 



leaves is prevented or checked and the energy is directed to 

 the formation of minute buds, or bulbs, in the same manner 

 as adventitious buds form upon a wounded stem. Advantage 

 is taken of this fact to multiply some bulbous plants, and in 

 the case of the hyacinths, at least, the mutilation of bulbs for 

 this purpose is practiced to a commercial extent. Hyacinth 

 bulbs are cut in two, or are slashed in various ways. The favor- 

 ite method is to make two or three deep transverse cuts into the 

 base of the bulb. The strongest bulbs should be chosen and 

 the operation is performed in spring or 

 early summer when the bulb is taken 

 up. The bulbs are sometimes hal- 

 lowed out from the under side for 

 half or more of their length. 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 

 Fig. 13- Hollowed Hyacinth be well dried before be j ng planted 



Both methods of preparing hyacinth 



bulbs are shown in Figs. 12 and 13. which are adapted from 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. Fig. 14 shows a portion of the base of 



