Abstract

Plants are cultivated not only for seed, bark or leaf but also for flowers. Flowers of some plants are beautiful to look at and extremely fragrant and from the petals of such flowers are ex- tracted some of the most delicious perfumes. Beautiful bouquets and guady garlands are also made of them. The importance of flowers in worshipping gods among the Hindus and on marri age occasions is too well known to need comment here. The cultivation of such flower-yielding plants gives very high remunerative returns when carried out out in places where there are facilities for marketing. In Coimbatore there is a large sale for flowers of chrysanthemums which are cultivated in the neighbour ing villages of Kurichi, Kuniamuthur and Pallepalayam. The plant is a shrub of many roots and stems and is propagated by division that is, by dividing it into as many slips as it can give. After the final picking of the flowers the plants are pruned, and irrigated which make them grow and shoot up quickly. They are lifted, divided and planted out avoiding the parent stem.

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