212 
The Garden Magazine, May, 1921 
INCREASING THE NUMBER 
OF YOUR BULBS 
RAWING to the war, bulbs are not so easy to 
AT get as before. A great many of the kinds 
we grow in our garden come from Holland, and 
these are not coming along in very big quantities. 
I am going to tell you howyou can increase several 
kinds of bulbs. These, when they grow up, may 
not be quite so fine as those you used to buy, 
still they will throw nice flowers. 
First of all 1 want to let you know about 
Narcissus and Tulips. In the spring, after these 
After flowering, the Hyacinth bulb is 
scooped out from the bottom and 
replanted. Bulblets form as shown 
A simpler way is to cross-cut the 
bottom of the old bulb; new ones will 
then form on the callusing tissues 
bulbs have been blooming, you will notice that 
they bear babies at their sides. When you can 
easily pull these away you should do so, and 
plant them out separately in some odd corner I 
of the garden. In a year or so they will grow on 
until they are of a flowering size. Crocus bears ■ 
its new bulbs right on the top of the old ones. | 
You can pull these away and plant them out | 
separately. Snowdrop and Scilla produce the 
young fresh bulbs at the sides of the old ones and 
all you have to do is to take these away. Bvil 
doing this each season you can enormously i 
increase your stock of bulbs and you will have 
some to give away or to sell to your friends. 
Hyacinths do produce new bulbs at the side, ; 
but in this case there is a better way of getting 
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