One of the garden spots of California is on the sheltered slope of San Mateo county, twenty-five or thirty miles south of San Francisco. This is the region west of the Bay that corresponds most nearly with the sheltered hill-slopes and valleys east of the Bay around Niles and the Mission San Jose. Here, near Palo Alto, an association of about a hundred women, all ex-teachers, have bought ninety acres of land on University Heights. Each member holds a title-deed to her piece of land, but agrees to cultivate seeds, bulbs, and cut flowers. Two of the first ladies to organize the movement are Mrs. C. A. Edmunds and Mrs. N. J. Ashton, of Oakland. They can secure three hundred acres of land adjoining the tract they now own, and work has been commenced on a number of cottages. There will be forty or more of the colonists living on the tract within a year. Senator Leland Stanford and his wife have been very much interested in the floral colony, and a great many others are watching its progress. - Charles H. Shihn.