Package

Claim 1

A package for a plurality of bulbs or tubers adapted to be planted bodily in the soil in which a number of bulbs or tubers is packed at interspaces which correspond with the correct spacing at which the bulbs should be planted from each other, which package defines a packing that is suitable to be placed, together with the packed bulbs, in the soil for planting the same, while the bulbs are kept in the correct position for planting, which packing comprises: at least one pair of opposing walls of water-resistant plastic foil interconnected by a longitudinal fold, said walls having pair-wise opposed depressions which together form an envelope holding a bulb or tuber and enclosing the same at least substantially completely with some clearance, each envelope having first means at least partly defining an opening at the bottom of the enclosed bulb to allow the roots of the growing bulb to emerge and second means at least partly defining an opening at the top of the encloseD bulb to allow the growing stalk to emerge upwardly, and the lower portions of said depressions providing support means whereby each bulb is intermediate said first and second means entirely surrounded to give support of the bulb on surfaces of the envelope having approximately the same curvature as that of the bulb, the envelopes being spaced apart a distance corresponding to the correct distance at which the bulbs should be planted in the earth by means of a series of vertically extending spacer elements, said envelopes and spacer elements being secured to each other by means of a transversely extending protective strip overlying said envelope.