Tuberoses. 
The California Horticulturist has an art 
icle upon the culture of tuberoses, from M. 
G. Howatt, who is one of the largest grow¬ 
ers of these delightful members of the floral 
world, and his experience is worth some 
thing, especially when there are so many 
failures with this capricious plant. 
In the first place, he tells us that a bnlb 
of the size of a nutmeg, or smaller, will 
probably flower as finely as one as large as 
a Bartlett pear and produce quite as many 
flowers. He has seen spikes bearing forty 
or fifty blossoms. In the next place, bulbs 
flower but once; but at the base of each one 
is found a number of offsets, or baby bulbs, 
by which the tuberose is perpetuated. 
These must remain with the parent bulb, 
and be stored in a dry temperature not be 
low sixty degrees. In the spring, when all 
■danger from frost is passed, the offsets are 
removed and planted in warm soil. (Yellow 
loam enriched with decomposed cow ma¬ 
nure is the best.) Mr. Howatt’s plan and 
management are as follows: 
Have a marker with pegs set twelve inch¬ 
es apart; stretch a line tightly, and draw 
one peg along your line; then the successive 
rows will be straight. Use a spade, and 
cut down perpendicularly by each mark, so 
as to plant the offsets six inches deep, and 
about the same distance apart. Being so 
slow to start, you may drop a few radish 
seeds along the row, which will mark it 
nicely, and furnish radishes for the table 
before they are in the way of the tuberoses. 
For planting in this bed, select the smallest 
offshoots you can, for, if large, they will 
probably flower before the season is over, 
and the object is to produce good large 
flowering bulbs for the next year’s bloom¬ 
ing. But if any show signs of blooming 
they can be dug about, lifted carefully, and 
put in a pot, where they will expand the 
whole spike of flowers without trouble. 
The treatment of the bulbs, after they 
attain sufficient size for flowering, is thus 
given: 
The offsets are ready for bloom after one 
year’s growth as above described. In lift¬ 
ing from the bed the large bulbs, which aie 
to bloom next year, throw them in heaps, 
cut off the leaves, and put in a dry place; if 
in the green-house, let it be near your heat¬ 
ing pipes. For early flowering in January, 
we put three bulbs in an eight-inch pot. 
Put them in the warmest place you have, 
behind the stove, if possible. They will 
stand 100 degrees Fahr, Keep the soil dry¬ 
ish until the green leaves start. Then use 
all the water they want, and they will come 
on rapidly. Plant outdoors when it be¬ 
comes warm, for late autumn flowering. 
Start some in July and August for flower¬ 
ing at Christmas or New Year’s. The later 
ones planted will not need much care, al¬ 
though a little bottom heat will assist in 
starring them at any season. 
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