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a small growing point removed from a rhizome will 

 not be likely to continue to grow unless a portion of 

 the rhizome is taken with it. 



Stock may be more rapidly increased under glass, 

 and commercial growers sometimes resort to this 

 method in the case of expensive varieties. Thus one 

 grower,* in Bulletin (June, 1920) of American Iris 

 Society: 



'The stock is dug late in the season just before 

 the last freeze up. With a sharp, small-bladed knife 

 the roots are divided so that there is one bud and a 

 part of the rhizome and some roots with each one. 

 The blooming bud should have a side shoot with it. 

 These are potted in 3 and 3^ inch pots and wintered 

 in a cool greenhouse and kept somewhat on the dry 

 side until well-established and it is very seldom that 

 we lose one of these plants. By the first of May this 

 makes excellent stock for lining out or selling. Trans- 

 planting does not check their growth in the least- 

 From one Lord of June received from Wallace in 

 mid-winter we had five strong plants the following 

 May. From one Shekinah from Miss Sturtevant in 

 August we had six in the spring." In a letter of March 

 10, 1921, the same grower wrote: "I took up one 

 of the six Shekinahs mentioned in the Bulletin and 

 now have six nice starters from it growing in the green- 

 house * I have not used this method 

 very extensively and it is quite likely that there is 

 not much to be gained by it with some varieties." 



'Mr. W. J. Engle, Dayton, Ohio. 



