A correspondent from Lancaster, Pa., writes: "A Philadelphia correspondent of your excellent Gardeners' Monthly desires to know whether he could take two crocus bulbs, yellow and purple, cut them in halves, and place the cross sections of half of the yellow and half of the purple together, whether he would succeed in getting the yellow and purple flower seemingly from one bulb.

" Darwin says in his book on Animals and Plants, under Domestication, Vol. 1st, page 474; that, 'the author of Des Jacinthes impressed me with the belief not only of his extensive knowledge, but of his truthfulness. He says that bulbs of blue and red hyacinths may be cut in two, and they will grow together and throw up a united stem (and this I have myself seen), with flowers of the two colors on opposite sides. But the remarkable point is, that flowers are sometimes produced with the two colors blended together.'

" He does not say whether or not the bulbs were cut so as to divide the flower stem, but from the fact that the two colors blended together, I would infer that they were.

" I would not like to assert positively that your correspondent could get the result he desires; but would advise him to try several experiments, leaving the flower stem uncut in some, and cut it in others. He might in this way find a method that would be successful".

[It may be interesting to add, that the correspondent who first made the inquiry, has been moved, he tells us, to try the experiment. It is remarkable that with roots so easily obtained and divided, no one seems to have undertaken the testing of the matter. - Ed. G. M].