By an accident for which we are sorry, the following chapter of good hints has been in the " wrong box," for several months, till recently discovered :

"Thanks for the ' Seasonable Hints ' that opened the June issue of the Gardeners' Monthly and Horticulturist. If you will indulge in a few more such, perhaps the barbarisms that we see on every side may be curtailed. That is, provided people will ever learn.

"'Twas only two weeks ago that I passed some public grounds where the officer in charge was busily engaged in trimming (rather butchering) Coniferae - some of them handsome specimens - from the ground, so as to leave a bare stem of over five feet, and, to add to the beauty of the grounds, was topping - perhaps you would say rounding off - some beautiful English Lindens. At the same time the vineyard, consisting of Catawbas, Concords and Delawares, were being trained on the principle we Southerners adopt for growing the Scuppernong.

"The season here in the Valley of Virginia has been exceptionally cool. At this date, June 5th, the mercury at 50° F. Roses just opening; Co-leus, Lantanas, Ageratums, etc, wilting under the cool winds. Have you or any of your correspondents any experience with the Pyrethrum as a destroyer of the cabbage worm? If so, how should it be applied?"