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CIIAI’TEI~
III
PROPAGATION BY MFANS OF SEPARATION AND
DIVISION
SEEDS are not the only parts or organs that naturally detach
themselves from the parent plant and serve as the beginning
of ntw individnuls, as we Hague learned in Chapter 1 ; and
man)- plants are ~up”ble of being divided at the root into two
or more parts or plants. The “ bulb catalogue” of the seedsnien
indicates 1~0~ ext,ensive is this asexual means of multiplication.
1. SEP.iH..-\TION
Separation, or the multiplication of plants by means of
naturally detachal-)le vegetative organs, is efi’wtcd 1,~ means
of l~~lbs, l~ulMs, l~ull~scales, l~ulblets, corms, cwmels, tubers
and sonwtinw~ by l~icls.
I3Ulbs of 311 kinds are xptV*iilliWtl hut15. Tllcy arc niacle up
of a short a~~1 rl;&rnentary axis &wly incased in transformed
and tlkkwtvl lwws or Mlwx&~s. Tliew tliirkwd parts
niajv l~i stortvl \vitll nut.rinw;it 1iwl in sulwqutwt growth.
I3ull~ 0ccIlr irl plants iwwst.onxvl t-0 :I long period of inwtkity.
?Sla~lJ- l)ull)r,l~s I)la~~ts ilrc pwriliar to dry :llltl ilYi(l regions,
wlitw grob*tl~ is inipossil&2 ill Ioiig intwwls. A Ml), tlwrefow,
is ;I nlorti or ltw perlnttlwnt anct ~‘Olll~)il(‘t~ lrwf-lJu(l, llSUd1~ O(‘(‘llp>,iilSg
the base 0f tlw stem u;lcler growicl aid 4tting roots
froni its lo~vor p;lrt. 13ullw arc’ c7~lrv~~ilit~ntl~7 di~~iclcvl into two
great {:l;~ssc~s --- the SW&~, or t,hose cv~rnp~w~l of narrow and
mostly 100s~ wt~les, as in the lily, and Itrrrhi~rfr? or fwliiwto, or
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