The gardens of our old city just now (Nov. 15) are fragrant with the perfume of the little golden balls of the Acacia Farnesiana, as Op-is the ne and came are, so knows, unanswered questions. Webster describes a plant by this name, but not belonging to the Acacia family, and this has misled many people into calling it a Persian shrub. It has been asserted that it will grow only in South Carolina, and in only three places there - Charleston, Beaufort and Walterboro. If this be a fact, it is a most singular one, and certainly deserves investigation. Should others succeed in making it thrive elsewhere, they will find themselves amply repaid in the possession of so charming a shrub. It has the distinguishing marks of the acacia family; foliage delicate in color and texture ; blossoms, crowded masses of fluffy golden stamens. The perfume is like that of no other plant, in our country at least, delicate, delicious and wonderfully persistent. This should make it of great value to perfumers. It blossoms freely all through the fall and early winter months, and will stand a fair amount of frost and cold.

Any further information on the subject would be welcome to many readers of The American Garden in this city. - "K.," Charleston, South Carolina.

The Novelty Crop of 1889 will undoubtedly be the largest one ever produced. There has been great activity in all departments of horticulture during the past year, and it will show in the catalogues. These catalogues should afford profitable reading for the cold days that are coming.

What! An English horticultural paper says, " It is calculated that during a London season the average amount of money spent daily in flowers is $25,000, most of which also goes to foreign flower growers, thanks to our wretched climate and our neglect in the matter of cultivation." This is a strange statement to make, and may be taken with many grains of allowance. In fact, we think the writer must have attended a meeting of the Unsuccessful Gardeners Club the previous evening, where failure is always attributed to the weather, or some other cause entirely beyond the gardener's control. We have no right to speak for England, and know the florists there have much to contend against in the way of weather, but we can truly say from what we have seen that "neglect in the matter of cultivation " cannot justly be attributed to the English gardener. - C. L. A.