Excerpt from Bulbous Irises I propose to treat my subject as much as possible from a gardener's point of view, and shall therefore not take up more time than is necessary with botanical details. To start with, I use the term bulbous in the gardener's, not in the botanist's meaning. We gardeners are regarded, and indeed justly re garded, by the botanists as being very loose in our use of the word bulb we often include as bulbs what ought to be called corms, tubers, or the like I do not propose to discuss to-day which Irises form true bulbs, and shall use the term bulb in the loose gardening sense. If a gardening definition of a bulb be wanted, we may perhaps say that it is a specially fed bud which separates of its own accord from the mother stock in order to live an independent existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.