O. L. Allen
Published: 2015-06-12
Total Pages: 324
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Excerpt from Bulbs and Tuberous-Rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of Propagation The growing of bulbs to produce flowers in their greatest perfection, is a branch of gardening peculiar to itself, and one in which the minor, yet important details, are not generally understood. It is one of the objects of this book to show how the growing of bulbs can be made a pleasure, or a profitable industry, by giving complete cultural instructions in detail. The flowering of bulbs is a very simple matter. The bulb, when it comes from the hands of the grower, contain? within itself the food for the future flower, and it does not require the gardeners skill to develop it. There are a few necessary points to be considered, and these we have so plainly stated, that many of the supposed difficulties in their cultivation have been removed. Causes of failure have been explained so fully, that with but little trouble, there need be no fear of loss in their cultivation. The growing of bulbs, other than the charms their flowers possess, has many advantages over that of any other class of flowering plants; among others, and a very great one, is that many of them produce their flowers in very early spring, at a season when few other plants are in blossom, and yet when flowers are doubly valuable from their rarity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.