A correspondent from Natal tells the Gardeners' Chronicle:

" For several years Tuberose bulbs, in number a few hundred, were simply cultivated, not propagated, their possibilities unthought of. About five years since, however, they were taken in hand, and a different culture began. Instead of the bulbs being allowed to occupy the same ground year after year without transplanting or division of any kind, they were regularly lifted about June, growth being then at a halt, the offsets taken off, and replanted the following spring (September).

" I shall describe the method followed in a ten acre field, which is daily under my notice. In October last year, the dry grass having being burnt off, the ground - perfectly virgin soil - was broken up with a large American plough drawn by twelve oxen; the few large boulders lying about were removed. For a first crop Mealies (Maize) were sown broadcast and harrowed in. The next thing was to get the field enclosed with a good bank and ditch and barbed-wire fence. Owing to a press of work the Mealies grew up untouched by hoe or cultivator of any kind, yet, thanks to the good season, an average crop of fair-sized cobs was gathered last April.

"As is generally the custom here, during the winter, the cattle were turned in to feed off the cornstalks. In August last all was burnt that would burn, and the ground thoroughly ploughed, cross-ploughed, and harrowed twice, grass and Mealie roots gathered and burnt. The soil being in a fine friable condition, furrows were struck out two feet apart with a small iron plough and a couple of horses, a simple marking-machine drawn up and down the drills, and the sets planted six inches apart, and hoed in. Weeds are very carefully kept down, and with our heavy summer rains the growth of the plant is rapid. About midsummer (December) the splendid spikes of bloom expand, and continue till mid-winter (June); indeed, in this locality, 2800 feet above the sea, I am convinced that, with a little management in planting successional batches, they could be had in flower in the open ground throughout the year. For so little frost have we, that tomatoes generally continue to ripen fruit in the open through the winter; when in Maritzburg, about 200 feet below us, they are invariably killed by the cold. Cannot the Tuberose be flowered in the open - at least in the south of England? 1 venture to ask.your readers to try.

The climate of this colony is particularly well suited for the cultivation of bulbous-rooted plants - a hot, moist summer, followed by a dry, cool winter; and, I will add, this locality is favored above many others for Tuberose culture. We miss the winter rains of the coast, and escape the up-country hailstorms. A rough estimate gives about fifty acres under Tuberoses in this colony, and the number of bulbs now in the ground nearly 3,000,000,"