Bukowina
a former Crownland of Austria-Hungary, bounded on the N. by eastern Galicia, on the E. by Russia Rumania, the W. by Hungary, and Rumania, on the W. by Hungary, and by Rumania on the S. It has the . It has an area of 4,030 square miles and a population of about 800,000. Its capital is Czernowitz (pop. about 90,000). It was the scene of severe fighting during the World War and after the conclusion of the conflict was claimed by Rumania on racial and political grounds. It is chiefly an agricultural country and has derground stem with buds upon it, technically called a corm, whereas a proper bulb is analogous not to an underground stem, but to a bud only. Bulbs placed in water tend to rot; they flourish best when fixed in very light soil or even in the air an inch above water, into which their roots enter. They should have abundance of light.