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Bulbs (Plants)

Here are entered works on the category of perennial plants that grow from bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers, or tuberous roots. Works on the anatomical structure of perennial plants consisting of an underground modified stem and modified leaves that contain stored food are entered under Bulbs (Plant anatomy).

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• Flowering bulbs
• Tuberous-rooted plants

• Dutch Bulbs and Gardens (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909), by Una L. Silberrad and Sophie Lyall, illust. by Mima Nixon (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Remarks on the cultivation of Dutch bulbs and plants, and suggestions which may be of interest to all amateurs. (New York, De Veer & Boomkamp, [c1885]), by Ant. Roozen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spring flowering bulbs. (Madison, Wis., 1904), by Frederic Cranefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make a bulb-garden; (Harrisburg, Pa., The Countryside press, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearings before the Committee on interstate and foreign commerce of the House of representatives on the bills H. R. 20373 and H. R. 29163, adulteration and misbranding of seeds, bulbs, etc. ... (Washington, Govt. print. off., 1911), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amateur florist's guide for the cultivation of Dutch bulbous flowers [electronic resource] / ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1863), by S. J. Lyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulb culture for the amateur [electronic resource] / (Ottawa : [s.n.], 1904), by W. T. Macoun and R. B. Whyte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulbs: a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers. (Boston, Shepard and Gill, 1873), by Edward Sprague Rand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs; a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers. (New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1876), by Edward Sprague Rand (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to make a bulb-garden; (Harrisburg, Pa., The Countryside press, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures with hardy bulbs, (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1936), by Louise Beebe Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs : a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers / (Boston : Shepard and Gill, 1873), by Edward Sprague Rand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spring flowering bulbs / (Washington : Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1977), by United States. Agricultural Research Service and Henry M. Cathey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri Laurembergii ... Apparatus plantarius : tributus in duos libros. I. De plantis bulbosis. II. De plantis tuberosis. Quibus exhibentur ... vires, usus tam culinarius quam medicus ... Itemque quae poetae ... philosophi ... &c. de iis memoratu digna annotarunt. (Frankfort : M. Merian, [1632]), by Peter Lauremberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and their cultivation. (London : W. H. & L. Collingridge, [1908]), by T. W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bulbs under glass / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1926), by David Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs from seed / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1934), by David Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbous plants for the garden; tulips, narcissus, hyacinths, lilies, crocuses, lily of the valley, etc. (N. Y. A. T. De La Mare, co. inc., [c1921]), by T. A. Weston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulb culture for the amateur, (Ottawa, Ont. Canada, 1904), by William Terrill Macoun and R. B. Whyte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Production of grape-hyacinth bulbs / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1925), by David Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer flowering bulbs. ([Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977]), by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flower garden : or, The culture in the open ground of bulbous, tuberous, fibrous-rooted, & shrubby flowers / (London : G. Routledge, 1856), by Edmund Saul Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spring flowering bulbs / ([Washington, D.C. : The Division, 1968]), by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental study of the rest period in plants. (Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1915), by W. L. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amend Plant Quarantine Act. Hearings ... Eightieth Congress, first session, on S. 338, H.R. 2773, and H.R. 2950, to amend the Plant Quarantine Act approved August 30, 1912, and amended, by adding thereto a new section. June 5 and 6, 1947. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1947), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des fleurs a oignons : contenant tout ce qui est nécessaire pour les bien cultiver, fondé sur une expérience de plusieurs années / (À Harlem : Imprimé chez C.H. Bohn, MDCCLX [1760]), by Nicholas van Kampen, Nicholas van Kampen et Fils (Firm), Nicolas van Kampen et fils (Firm), and Jean Kreps et Fils (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les plantes bulbeuses : espèces, races et variété cultivées dans les jardins de l'Europe avec l'indication des procédés de culture / (Paris : Libraire Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 1872), by Mathieu Bossin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants : their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse / (New York : Orange Judd Company, 1905, c1893), by Charles Linnaeus Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants : their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse / (New York : Orange Judd Company, 1911, c1893), by Charles Linnaeus Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spring flowering bulbs / (Washington : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by Henry M. Cathey and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Production of Easter lily bulbs / (Berkeley, Calif. : College of Agriculture, University of California, 1947), by H. M. Butterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and their cultivation. (London : W. H. & L. Collingridge, [1908]), by T. W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address to the members of the international conference of phytopathology and economic entomology June 28, 1923. (Lisse, Holland, 1923), by E. van Slogteren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evaluating fall-planted Dutch-grown miscellaneous bulbs for spring and early summer flowering / (East Lansing : Michigan State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1976), by A. A. De Hertogh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of bulbs / (London ; New York : J. Lane, 1914), by Samuel Arnott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants : their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse / (New York : Orange Judd Co., 1899, c1893), by Charles Linnaeus Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flower garden; or, The culture in the open ground of bulbous, tuberous, fibrous-rooted, & shrubby flowers. (London, [etc.] Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860), by Edmund Saul Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus hyacinthi Banks) / ([New Haven] : Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1937), by Philip Garman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diseases of bulbs (London, Printed and published by His Majesty's stationery office, 1939), by W. C. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty from bulbs ... [Catalogs] (New York, J. Scheepers, inc., [c1929- ]), by Inc John Scheepers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty from bulbs ... [Catalogs] (New York, J. Scheepers, inc., c1930-), by Inc John Scheepers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty from bulbs ... [Catalogs] (New York, J. Scheepers, inc., c1931-), by Inc John Scheepers (page images at HathiTrust)
• All about flowering bulbs for home and garden, (New York, N. Y., A. T. De La Mare company, inc., 1931), by Thomas A. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monographie horticole des plantes bulbeuses, tuberculeuses, etc. Amaryllidées, liliacées, iridées, etc. et leur culture dans le nord de l'Europe, le midi de la France et l'Algérie. (Paris, Librairie des sciences agricoles, [1905]), by Raphaël de Noter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schönblühende Zwiebelgewächse. (Berlin, K. Siegismund, [1900]), by Hugo Lindemuth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A survey of the United States bulb industry; a preliminary report. (Washington, D. C., 1931), by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs for beauty. (New York, M. Barrows, [1947]), by Charles Hess Mueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of gardens; a treatise on American and foreign bulbs for outdoor and indoor culture. (New York : J. Scheepers, Inc., 1920), by Alice Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze und gründliche Anweisung zur kultur der beliebtesten Zwiebelgewächse zum Zimmer- und Gartenflor für angehende Blumenfreunde. (Glogau, Günter, 1828), by C. H. Kleemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs: a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers. (Boston, J. E. Tilton, 1866), by Edward Sprague Rand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henderson's bulb culture. (New York : P. Henderson, 1904), by Peter Henderson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of bulbs, (London and New York, J. Jane, 1901), by S. Arnott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulb growing for amateurs. Freely illustrated by photographs and sketches. (London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd., [1924]), by H. H. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Minor bulbs, their culture and recommended varieties : a compendium. ([Madison, Wis. : s.n., 1948]), by Charles J. Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture forcée des oignons à fleurs; bulbes, tubercules, rhizomes. Description et culture. (Paris, Librairie et imprimerie horticoles, 1902), by Jules Henri Rudolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The twentieth century method; growing bulbs for winter and spring blooming, (New York, The Home of Heather, Knight and Struck Company, [c1914]), by Maurice Fuld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental bulbous plants / (London : William Smith, 1841), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis Apparatus plantarius tributus in duos libros : I. De plantis bulbosis, II. De plantis tuberosis : quibus exhibentur praeter nomenclaturas, multiplices earum differentiae & species, vires, usus tam culinarius quam medicus : cultura sive ratio eas plantandi, conservandi, propagandi, itemque quae poetae, philologi, philosophi, sacrae litterae, &c. de iis memoratu digna annotarunt : adiunctae sunt plantarum quarundam novarum nova ichnographia, & descriptiones., by Peter Lauremberg and Matthaeus Merian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer flowering bulbs / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1971), by Henry M. Cathey and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Crops Research Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rodents and moles as pests in bulb plantings / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1936), by Theo. H. Scheffer and F. E. Garlough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic effects of bulbous bases / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information [distributor], 1969), by Lars E. Ericsson, J. Peter Reding, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bidrag till groddknopparnas morfologi och biologi. (Lund, Tryckt uti Berlingska bokteryckeriet, 1857), by Fredrik Vilhelm Kristian Areschoug (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beautiful bulbous plants for the open air / (London : Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co., [1905]), by John Weathers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pictorial practical bulb growing; a concise guide to the culture of all the most important bulbous, tuberous, and allied plants, (London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited, 1903), by Walter Page Wright and Horace J. Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dutch florist, or, True method of managing all sorts of flowers with bulbous roots/ (London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., 1764), by Nicolas van Kampen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais sur l'histoire et la culture des plantes bulbeuses, vulgairement appelées ognons à fleurs, comprenant les caractères diagnostiques, la synonymie, l'etymologie des noms génériques, la liste des espèces cultivées, la date d'introduction, la conteur des fleurs de ces plantes, etc.; (Paris, H. Cousin, 1843), by Charles Antoine Lemaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty from bulbs : a treatise on the leading varieties of bulbs suitable for outdoor and indoor culture and of proven merit for American gardens. (New York : J. Scheepers, Inc., 1928), by Inc John Scheepers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les plantes bulbeuses, tuberculeuses et rhizomateuses ornementales de serre et de pleine terre. Avec 227 figures dans le texte. (Paris, O. Doin, 1895), by D. Guihéneuf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seeds (other than oilseeds), bulbs, nursey and greenhouse products and reciprocal trade agreements. ([Washington], 1941), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The flower garden, or, The culture in the open ground of bulbous, tuberous, fibrous-rooted, & shrubby flowers /, by Edmund Saul Dixon, Chester W. Topp, Chester W. Topp collection of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks (Emory University. MARBL) GEU, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty from bulbs ... [Catalogs]. (New York, J. Scheepers, Inc., ©1925-), by Inc John Scheepers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded), (London : J. Murray, 1911), by John Weathers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [G.C. Watson materials] [electronic resource]. (Philadelphia, Pa. : G.C. Watson, 1895-1904), by G.C. Watson (Firm), George C. Watson, and Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardy bulbs / (La Conner, Wash. : Sweeney, Straub & Dimm, c1946), by Cecil Solly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spring flowering bulbs, hardy and desirable materials for use in the home garden, (New York, Orange Judd Publishing Company, inc.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, ltd., 1928), by Clark Leonard Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and bulb culture: being descriptions, both historical and botanical, of the principal bulbs and bulbous plants grown in this country, and their chief varieties; with full and practical instructions for their successful cultivation, both in and out of doors ... (London, L. U. Gill, [1885]), by David Taylor Fish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs for American gardens, (Boston, Mass., The Stratford company, [c1930]), by John Caspar Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive annual catalogue of bulbs, and other flowering roots, with directions for their culture and management. (New-York : Alfred Cobb, steam law Book, catalogue and job printer, no. 43 Ann Street, (near Nassau)), by J.M. Thorburn & Co and Alfred Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onderzoek der ziekten van hyacinthen en andere bol- en knolgewassen gedurende de jaren 1883, 1884 en 1885, ([Haarlem] Gedrukt voor de leden der Algemeene vereeniging voor bloembollencultuur, [1887]), by J H. Wakker and Haarlem Algemeene vereeniging voor bloombollencultuur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardy bulbous plants. : Florilegium harlemense; descriptions and life-size figures in colours of 148 varieties, produced under the auspices of the General association of bulb-culturists of Haarlem / (London New York : F. Warne & co., 1908), by Haarlem Algemeene vereeniging voor bloembollencultuur and Edward Step, illust. by A. Goossens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Making a bulb garden, (New York, McBride, Nast & company, 1912), by Grace Tabor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreer's autumn catalogue / (Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer.), by Henry A. Dreer (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• General price list of vegetable, farm, tree, conifer, palm, flower and other seeds, canna roots, Italian fruit trees, plants, novelties of seeds & c. & c. / (San Giovanni a Teduccio : Dammann & Co..), by Dammann & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hardy bulbs for amateurs, (London, Country Life; New York, C. Scribner's, 1924), by Joseph Jacob (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amending the Plant quarantine act. (Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1936), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental bulbous plants. (London, W. S. Orr & co., [1849]), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs that bloom in the spring, (New York, N. Y., De La Mare company, inc., 1926), by Thomas A. Weston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bulb book: or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for tae open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded), (New York, E. P. Dutton & co., 1911), by John Weathers (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of true bulbs, corms, and tubers (exempted under Regulation 6, Section A (1), Quarantine No. 48). (Washington, D.C. : United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, [1936]), by Lee A. Strong and United States. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer flowering bulbs / (Washington : Dept. of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by Henry M. Cathey and United States. Science and Education Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulb gardening, (London, T. Butterworth, limited, [1921]), by Mary Hampden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A study of the bulb mite / ([New Haven] : Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1921), by Philip Garman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreer's Hints on the growing of bulbs; (Philadelphia, H. A. Dreer, [c1914]), by Henry A. Dreer and Ida Dandridge Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dutch bulbs and gardens, (London : A. and C. Black, 1909), by Una Lucy Silberrad, Sophie Lyall, and Mima Nixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and development of bulbs in the genus Erythronium ... (Baltimore?, 1910), by Frederick Harvey Blodgett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants; their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse, (New York, Orange Judd Co., 1893), by Charles Linnaeus Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs and their cultivation : a practical treatise on the cultivation and propagation of window and indoor bulbous and tuberous-rooted plants ... / (London : W.H. & L. Collingridge, [1913?]), by T. W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulbs; a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by Edward Sprague Rand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulb gardening, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1922), by Mary Hampden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dutch Bulbs and Gardens, by Sophie Lyall and Una L. Silberrad, illust. by Mima Nixon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Book of Bulbs, by Samuel Arnott, ed. by Harry Roberts (Gutenberg ebook)
• Beautiful Bulbous Plants for the Open Air, by John Weathers (Gutenberg ebook)

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