At left is shown a normal bulb (A) with dropper (B) attached, and in the centre the bulbs and dropper tube are shown in section. The tube ultimately shrivels up and leaves the bulbs detached, as shown at right, the dropper bulb being an inch or more deeper in the soil than the original. Droppers are specially liable to develop when small, non-flowering bulbs are planted. These produce “widows,” and the long neck (C) is the withered remains of the single large leaf (D), inside the base of which the bulb develops.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 76, Issue 6, 15 June 1948, Page 596
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92At left is shown a normal bulb (A) with dropper (B) attached, and in the centre the bulbs and dropper tube are shown in section. The tube ultimately shrivels up and leaves the bulbs detached, as shown at right, the dropper bulb being an inch or more deeper in the soil than the original. Droppers are specially liable to develop when small, non-flowering bulbs are planted. These produce “widows,” and the long neck (C) is the withered remains of the single large leaf (D), inside the base of which the bulb develops. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 76, Issue 6, 15 June 1948, Page 596
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