We have beard persons remark that they did not know how people did in former times without bouvardias, winter carnations, and the many other floral beauties that help us so pleasantly to while winter away. It is certainly a wonder what we would do without begonias. I can remember when the old "Elephant's Ear" or "Beefsteak plant" (Begonia Evansiana), a half hardy herbaceous kind, was about the only one grown for its flowers to any extent, and certainly room gardening was never so gay as now. They seem so well adapted to window and room gardening, that surely nothing can equal them. Most plants turn to the light, and thus show how much they desire light, and miss it when it is lessened in amount. The begonia is the only plant we know of that does not turn to the light. It is quite satisfied to make the best of whatever situation it may be placed in, and therefore preaches au excellent sermon, while doing duty in making our rooms and windows cheerful in the winter time. - Thomas Meehan.