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such as by cutting out or otherwise destroying the central 
bud, thus causing numerous other buds to be produced, 
from which offsets result. A similar effect is caused by 
making a cross-cut upwards through the fleshy disk at 
the base, extending to the seat of the scales, or by 
making slashes downward through the outer scales and 
BULB oF LILIUM, SHOWING LOOSE YOUNG BULBLETS 
SCALES. OF LILIUM FROM STEM. 
penetrating to the basal disk. Another plan is to scoop 
out a hollow cavity in the bulb from below. 
Many bulbous plants of a gregarious nature, such as 
Daffodils, Snowdrops, Crinums, and Eucharis, develop 
offsets freely enough for all ordinary purposes, which 
may be removed and grown on to a flowering size with- 
out adopting the more artificial methods. Some of the 
Liliums, such as L. bulbiferwm, form bulbils in the axils 
