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Title: The harvesting and storage of dahlias
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolles, Charlton Burgess
Subjects: Compositae
Publisher: (Media, Pa., C.B. Bolles)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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put into the storage cellar thatthis year, at any rate, very few necks were broken, onlyto find at cutting up time, when the clumps are divided,that the same sad tale remains, with a deplorable per-centage of loss through broken necks. A tuber witha broken neck is about as valuable as a man who hasthe same trouble. Both are dead ones, or will be soon. The Irish or white potato and the sweet potatohave eyes from which spring the sprouts. The dahliatuber is without eyes as the dormant buds are popu-larly called. The underground buds of the dahlia arelocated upon the crowns of the tubers. Thesecrowns are rather small enlargements of the neck ofthe tuber just where the neck or stem of the tuber isjoined to the main stalk of the plant When the clumpsof tubers are divided in the spring (for only one tuberand one stalk should be allowed to grow at each posi-tion in the garden row), a portion of the central stemof the clump must be carefully left attached to the neck 2 ~o £ > 3 z en 2 3 Oharvestingstorag00boll
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