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High field : The Structure of a Garlic Bulb. 



similar structure to that of the original seedling bulb, and so 

 year after year. 



The photographs in fig i show (a) a seedling with seed coat 

 attached to the stalk of the cotyledon ; {b) a bulb of one year's 

 growth ; ' and (c) a mature bulb. In {b) and (c) a scar is seen 



Garlic Bulbs. 



on the outer sheath, which shows where last year's petiole was 

 detached. 



A mature bulb differs only from the young form in the 

 greater complexity of its shoot, which consists of two leaves 

 and a flower enclosed within a tubular sheath. In bulbs 

 which are about to reproduce vegetatively, two shoots are 

 contained within the same sheath. 



Fig 2 represents the section of a mature flowering bulb 

 taken in April ; the two leaves and flower stalk were above 

 ground : — {a) is the food ring or remnant of last year's leaf ; 



Naturalist, 



