The following card comes from a correspondent at Lancaster, Ohio. " I send you per mail this day two blooms of a yellow carnation which originated with me from seed brought over from Germany two years ago. The plant is strong and vigorous in appearance. Believing that this color is something new in carnations I concluded to send you a couple and ask your opinion of them in the Gardeners' Monthly."

[The flowers are of a clear straw color. We have had yellow carnations before, but none that seem as clear and distinct as this. As there is a growing taste for this class of carnations, we are disposed to look on this as a valuable improvement. - Ed. G. M.]