CHAPTER XII 



Shipping 



HE SHIPPING of rhizomes and plants 

 is as easy as that of flowers is difficult. 



RHIZOMES. Dormant stored rhizomes should be 

 freed from dried leaves and roots taking care not 

 to injure the tender point or the buds though the 

 roots are frequently left for the receiver's attention. 

 Wrap each one tight in dry paper or moss so as to 

 prevent free circulation of air and the rhizome's drying 

 out. Enclose in a pasteboard box or strong wrapper 

 (as, corrugated paper, matting, burlap) to prevent 

 injury by bruising. A rhizome in transit by mail 

 from any point to another, within the United States, 

 without such careful wrapping will usually dry but 

 little, but that little may as well be prevented. 



Commercial growers shipping in quantity sometimes 

 merely pack in barrels, boxes or sacks, jarring the 

 rhizomes together as the packing proceeds, and thus 

 packed they keep sufficiently moist. 



GROWING PLANTS. The leaves and roots 

 should be shortened as suggested under Planting, 

 page 173, but, the roots are frequently left to be short- 

 ened according to the buyer's judgment. The plants 

 should be freed from soil, and when this is done by 



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