Your correspondent on page 305, May Garden, hits the nail on the head in criticism of C. L. A.'s remarks in the March number. I know of an honest seedsman, whose catalogue was a perfect encyclopedia of careful instruction, with a calendar for the operations of every month in detail. His gratuitous information (the result of long experience) took up fully twelve pages of his expensive catalogue He sold good seeds; yet the people who got his catalogue must have bought our friend R. T. Choke's Inexhaustible Sure-pop cabbage and other "specialties, "and planted them by the honest seedsman's instructions, for sure they didn't buy of the latter When the apostle of catalogue humbuggery.is now reputed to be gathering in $50,000 yearly profits from his "novelties," and such, is there encouragement for the straightforward dealer to offer instructions instead of vivid descriptions, a cookbook instead of an overdrawn illustration ? The way to educate the dear people against being humbugged is through our honest horticultural publications, not through catalogues ; and even then we much fear that they will want a few seeds of the wonderful Everbearing Watermelon Gooseberry at 50 cents a packet! - J. H. McF.