This enquirer asks for two of the best of the Damask roses, R. Damascena, for growing in the south for perfumers. They are Mad. Hardy and Mad. Zoutman, and may be obtained of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.

Love-in-a-Mist, another good old annual, has an advocate. F. W. Burbidge, in The Garden, is speaking very kindly and truly of our "grandmother's flowers." Among them is Nigella damascena, one of the first flowers I knew, and one of the best annuals now grown, how it used to look in an old broken pitcher (the vase of 50 years ago) on my mothers table ! It is just as handsome yet, and should have a place in the garden. A new species, or one less known, N. Hispanica (the old kinds would be new now) is honored with a colored plate ; the flowers are large, of a bright deep blue color, with blood-colored stamens. In this notice the key-note of success in the growing of annuals is struck. The essential thing is to thin out so that the plants will have plenty of room to develop and show what they are* which they cannot do if there are a dozen where there should be but one.