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Fig. 89. 
Directly after the flowers are cut oft', the bulbs begin to grow ; the leaves erect 
l themselves and get taller. The weather during May and June decides whether there 
will be a good crop or not. For the last two years the Hyacinths have been badly 
injured during these months by honey dews* and storms, so that it will require at 
(I least one good season to bring the stock up right again. 
Fig. 90. 
About the last of June the nurserymen begin to take the bulbs out of the ground, 
and this is the time to multiply them, which is done in these two different ways : 
Coming fresh out of the ground, the bottoms of the oldest and largest bulbs are cut 
into six or eight equal parts, about the thickness of the height of the bulb; this mode 
of cultivating is called “crossing.” [Fig. 87.] Next year the old bulb is gone (de- 
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*In most cases “ honey dew ” is ttie sweet secretions of Aphides , or perhaps other'plant lice. But there are 
some cases wherein it is clear no insects have had any agency in the matter ; and these cases are supposed to be 
due to sweet exudations from the leaves themselves, just as sugar is formed in the sap of the sugar maple during 
the winter season. But just how the plant does it lias not been made known, that we are aware of — Gardener’s 
Monthly, March, 1879. ' 
