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sets are taken from the old bulb that has flowered during 
the Winter months and set out in Spring as soon as the 
weather permits. The plan generally adopted is, after 
thoroughly plowing and harrowing the ground to mark 
out furrows three and a half feet apart with a plow, six 
or seven inches deep, and ten or twelve inches wide. In 
the bottom of this furrow spread some well rotted ma- 
nure. Two or three inches of soil is placed on top of this 
and the Tuberose sets are then planted in this prepared 
_ furrow in two rows nine or ten inches apart and five or 
six inches between the sets. The object of this plan is, 
that you get the benefit of the manure for two rows 
instead of one, as is the case when one row only is planted 
in the furrow, in the usual way. It is a little more labor 
to cultivate, but the saving in manure, in time in making 
furrows, and in planting by the double row plan, more 
than offsets this. Northern dealers complain of Southern 
Tuberoses as being sometimes worthless to them on 
account of not being properly hatvested in the Fall. 
Southern growers should give this matter more close 
attention, as the evil can be easily remedied. ‘The trou- 
ble is caused by leaving them too long in the ground in 
the Fall, so that they keep growing, and in consequence 
the embryo flower-bud starts in the dry bulb. The best 
way to grow good bulbs in the extreme South is to use 
sets no larger than peas, if they are to be left in the 
ground until November. From such small sets there 
would be no danger of the flower bud forming prema- 
turely. If large sets must be used they ought to be dug 
in September. Great care is necessary in harvesting 
Tuberose bulbs. They should never be placed in heaps 
large enough to generate heat, but should be spread on 
the ground and dried well in the open air; when thor- 
oughly dry the bulbs may be cleaned by rubbing off the 
