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ILLUSTRATION 
р; TULIPS AND THEIR WAYS. - 
minimum of. trouble, for althcug group о 
binus u fcr a number of 
cularly favourable. spot, 
d damag the 
cened,-if not entirely destroyed. The 
Tulips come to us from 
udden complete 
of л to the 
in our climate they 
surface 
y spring and 
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have more than once tried this experiment, 
cleaning som 
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time last year. What y happ 
he bulb I do not know, but a greenish yellow 
shoot grows out in autumn e len f 
г t hen subsequently withers 
The push out for an eigh 
inch and then йй) оа ‚ Wither a en at 
e of year two or three loose oes skins 
= я — gti 
Bee "n 
Fic. 40.—4 TULIP THAT HAS FLOWERED AND 
PRODUCED A “© DROPPER.” 
can peeled off the bulb, r evealing the new 
oe ain „of the sound bul Ib within 
One of the difficulties of lifting the bulbs of 
Tulip species is that many of them have sur- 
р wers of iion. me 5 а 
il b ich they сап be followed: to their 
retreat, but in the connecting link 
ith pidly aw and t is no 
me: owi what direction, to look 
for t Xperience, small 
in 
bulb.» ‘In’ my е 
bulbs of T. ingens: are the Tre offe 
this рч for their outer skin 
delicate that the eadein peus, ‘thé new 
көгү the. old bulb’ #ооп withers completely away. 
In Т. Kaufmanniana and Т. Greigii, on the 
other hand, the outer skin is so thick that the 
new bulb prea has a long 
memory is a paper 
Tulip dropper, | at ied that th these could not 
ase bu 
h more frequent with 
g small n 
in the example illustrated in Fig. 40, ау 
orti hat T. 
linifolia, T. niana and T 
Kolpakowskiana al] produce droppers wien i 
ore they to flowering 
was planted. T. prim mulin na is al- 
an offender as T. saxa na 
, for nne: soon 
perishes, but fortunately the. new. bulbs are not 
а a thei ents. 
г species, either "T. -pr or the 
which 
planting rs two in n difere nt 
Hithetto, I have, always 
d 
m inclined to think the 
mon and not T. praecox, but it is рош 
that gent offend alike 
vidence s to рее that in the 
wild state Tulips increase by seeds, and not by 
fsets. T, is only what we should expect 
when we. re b e of leaves that we 
sometimes see in our gardens where a Tulip 
bulb has been left in the ground and has given’ 
rise in a year or tw 3 
o to many d bien 
none дап attain to flowering size. The 
are that all these, offsets p 
without flowering. and leave seedlings bel 
to perpe othe er ze, I 
have ight 
old skins from 
apparently дасыз in the same position for 28 
