CHE REFERENCE LIBRARY - Pole Shift Survival Information

and represents but ;I single node ; in other cases it may corn--Ù
prise two or sewral intcrlmlcs or joints ilIlt he llluc~ll clangatcd.
It hrs
only a siq$ lwf,
as in Fig. 51 , or
scwral leaw~s or
cve11 lmridics.
‘i’lic rhizomes ilIT
tlivitled in smie
orchids so ns to
lcaw a p”“ldo-
Mb to cdl
piece ; or the
~~S~udOblllh llli\J
be treated as a
cutting in some
species.
An oflsr f is 8
c’roum or rosette
of leaves, muall~
home nest the
surface of the
groud, and which
in time Inay detach
itself and
form an independent
plant. The
best examples are
the house-leeks,
plants more fa-
FIG. 52. Pint~applc with slips (three showing) at TT,
aucl two cruwus or crown-slips at AA. miliarly knows as
“ hen-and-chickens
” and “ man-ad-wife.” These offsets take root readily,
and in propagating there is no other care uecessary than to