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PROPAGATION RY SEPARATION AND IllVISION 67
way as bulbs. The crown 0~ “ pip” of
the lily-of-the-valley, shown in Fig. 56,
is treated in this way.
Rootstock may be divided into as
many parts as there are eyes or buds,
and eack part is then treated as an independent
I.‘lont. Familiar examples of
such division are the common practices
of multiplying rhubarb and canna. A
(3nna rootstock, or “ stool,” is seen in
Fig. 57. The observer is looking down
on the top of the stool ; and the five ’
pit~ct’s show how the operator ha.s divided
it. The two lower pieces on the left show
the remhs of the flower-stalks of the
p1wic,us I\;-ear. If the variety were very
scarq sonw of these pieces could be ’
again divided into two or three.
FIG. 50. Lily-of-the-valley
crown.