CHAPTER VI 



Flowers that Spring from a 

 Storehouse (Bulbs and Tubers) 



Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: 

 they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say 

 unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not 

 arrayed like one of these. 



—Matthew vi, 28, 29. 



If you are going to be a really-truly gardener, 

 you will want to know something about the plants 

 and flowers that you try to grow, so let's have a 

 few words right here about the difference between 

 the bulb and tuber families. They can be classed 

 together because they both spring from what is in 

 fact a storehouse filled one season with food to 

 help them through the next season's bloom i 



Hyacinths and daffodils, for example, come from 

 BULBS, which are built up, layer on layer, exactly 

 like an onion. 



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