“BROKEN TULIPS.”
A correspondent of Tho Garden asked the editor if, when tulips have “broken” are planted, will the offsets from these be also striped, or is there a chance of their returning to tho original whole colour? In cleaning off his tulip bulbs he found that frequently he could not avoid rubbing off the outer skin, thus leaving tho bulb white. Did tr i;> do any practical harm?—The editor replied:—“Your question raises a very difficult point regarding the breaking of bulbs. It is almost impossible to say when a bulb thus broken will reyert to a pure type or when a pure bulb will break. Changes in the soil condition seem to bo rasponsible to a largo extent, but even then evidence goes to show that this alone is not entirely the cause. Provided that the inner part of the ■ bulb is not in any way damaged, the disturbance of the outer skin should not do any harm regarding tho flowering of the bulb, but in future try to prevent, as far as possible, this injury to the outer skin.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 3
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