Nathaniel Hawthorne's Uncle Manning was a horticulturist, and in the spring of 1822 was much troubled by an insect which attacked his trees. Just at this time there appeared in the Palladium newspaper a minute description of the insect, its origin, progress, and the best method for exterminating it. Mr. Manning was so pleased with the article that he ordered several copies of the paper for distribution among his horticultural friends. At this time Hawthorne was a student at Bowdoin College, and happened to arrive home just when his uncle was receiving the paper, and commenting freely on the article. Hawthorne said to a young friend, 'I wrote that article.' ' But what do you know about bugs ?' inquired his friend. 'Nothing,' was the reply; "I wrote it to pass away an idle hour, and it was entirely made up from my imagination. Now, if Uncle Robert should find it out, he would be very angry ; so you must keep my secret".

Lewiston Journal.

The Magnolias will give us no flowers this year, if the noble specimens on the Manice estate at Queens, L. I., represent the class. The buds of these are all dead; as far as can be seen there is not an exception. The same is true of many of the spiraeas and other flowering shrubs.. This is, in part, the result of our late warm winter.