A Philadelphia correspondent says: "I am about to plant some bulbs in small pots (Hyacinths, Tulips and Crocus) and wish to find out, without consuming the necessary time to experiment, whether I would have success. Suppose I take two Crocus bulbs, yellow and purple, and cut them in halves and place the cross sections of half of the yellow and half of the purple together, will I succeed in getting the yellow and purple flower seemingly from one bulb ? I presume there would be two stocks but that the centres of the bulbs would be so close together that if both would thrive they would seem to be sent forth from the same bulb".

[Not knowing that such an experiment has been tried, we can only give a hypothetical answer. Graft unions only take place in growing vegetation; a bulb finishes its growth the year previous to the proposed experiment. It, therefore, does not seem possible that the two halves of mature bulbs can unite.

Then in regard to the flower buds, or say spike, as in the Hyacinth. These buds are formed the fall before, and we may see the little buds with a powerful microscope. It might be possible with a knife blade " thin as air," to cut this embryonic bud through the centre and bring two halves together so closely that when the Hyacinths pushed up or elongated the two halves would grow together and seem as one stem - white flowers on one-half, and red on the other, but we doubt whether there is any one living capable of performing such an operation successfully. We believe the embryo flower buds or spikes would be crushed by the finest knife at present known.

By not cutting quite up to the centre, and bringing two (little more than) halves together, two spikes might come up that would "seem" to come from one bulb, and interest the curious. - Ed. G. M].