For purposes of propagation, bulblets are treated in the same way as bulbels, and like them, they reproduce the variety upon which they grow.
Propagated by seeds, offsets, and by the tiny bulblets on the upper portion of the stem.
Hyacinth leaves, inserted in sand in a frame, will soon produce little bulblets at their base, and these can be removed and planted in the same manner as the bulbels described in Chapter II.
They are also grown from "tops," which are bulblets borne in the flower cluster.
There are some species, as Asplenium bulbiferum, Cystopteris bulbifera and others, which bear small bulblets or detachable buds on their fronds.
It is impossible to draw any line of separation between bulblets and buds.
In the former instance the bulblets are direct transformations of buds, while in the onion they are transformed flowers.
These bulblets are then treated in the same manner as bulbels.
Sometimes smallbulblets form in the axils of the leaves, and these are used in the same manner as bulbels.
Every grower knows that bulbs the size of peas are far more prolific of bulblets than those of the same variety two inches in diameter.
They were a complete loss, for not one of them was planted, and the ruin of my choice bulblets hurt more than the waste of the money.
The growing of bulbs from bulblets is such an important part of the business that it seems best to describe the process in detail, even at the risk of some repetition.
The bulblets of some varieties sprout early and at a low temperature, and an active effort should be made to get them into the ground before this comes to pass.
Another excellent way to preservebulblets is to pack them in boxes and bury them in the ground, as our forefathers did potatoes and apples.
The old bulbs are taken off by hand and cast aside, carrying the roots with them, and the bulblets that still remain fall through the sieve into the basket below.
My work along this line has not been extensive enough to warrant pronouncing it a success, but the fewbulblets that I have experimented with have kept perfectly.
Another essential is a fair-sized clean bulb, and it is desirable, though not imperative, that it should produce bulblets freely.
Third, the small crates can be easily and entirely emptied, while the large ones retain bulblets or very small bulbs in the spaces between the lath, and when varieties are to be kept separate these must be carefully picked out.
A bulb too small to bloom will yield many times more bulblets than a large one of the same variety.
This same grower believes in soaking the black hard-shelled bulblets for 36 hours in water just before planting, but no longer.
I recall an instance of a barrel of bulblets that stood in a shed through two winters and one summer, and when the second spring came they were poured out on the ground, and probably twenty per cent of them sprouted.
Success with the gladiolus depends more upon the use and management of bulblets than upon any other one thing.
Through this the earth and most of the bulblets are sifted into the basket.
And here we find in several places the bulblets of a wild garlic, Allium Canadense, which grows on the river bottom.
These bulblets are produced on top of the stem with the flowers, and float on the water.
The second method of increasing lilies is by growing the small bulblets which form in the axils of the leaves.
Plant these bulbs in the same way and with the same precautions as you do new bulbs; detach any small bulblets and plant these separately.
Its petals are hairy on the lower third, and its stems bear small bulblets at the base underground.
Its stems are low, slender, and graceful, without bulblets at the base; and the gland upon the petals has a transverse scale covering its upper portion.
They have bulbs with round, thick scales, developing into bulblets and sometimes resembling grains of rice.
The bulblets should be planted in drills in April or May, and will grow to flowering size in one or two years.
Gladioli are increased by bulblets formed around the old bulbs (or corms), or they may be grown from seed.
The bulbs are placed to dry after cutting, and by and bye the bulblets appear.
Full-sized bulbs are induced to develop bulblets by cutting them cross-wise, about half-way through from the base, or scooping the bottom out into a hollow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulblets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
