One of the neatest as well as the the most novel pot plants we have met in our travels, we come across a few days since at the house of a friend, and it was, like many other good things, a creature of accident. A support was wanted for a geranium, and for this purpose a twig from a lilac bush was cut, the flowering buds remaining on it. Immediately after it had been placed in position in the pot it commenced growth, and finally developed its flowers as perfectly as though on the parent bush, excepting, of course, as regards color, which is always lighter when the plant is grown under artificial conditions - Queens.

The Chinese Sacred Lily (Narcissus orientalis). is very variable in its character. We have distributed a large number of bulbs this season, apparently all alike, and, so far as we know their treatment has been similar, but the results have been quite different. In one dish were planted three bulbs, one of which gave three enormous spikes of bloom ; the second gave six spikes, but the size and number of the flowers were much smaller ; the third gave four spikes and the flowers were perfectly double, but in all other respects similar. The first mentioned we consider decidedly the most desirable. - A.

Growing Dandelion is now a considerable business with many market gardeners. The most important point to attend to in its culture is to sow so early that the plants will attain a good size before hot and dry weather comes, otherwise the leaves will scorch.

If Rot, Rust and Blight attacked your vegetable crops last year grow the crops in different places this year, as far as possible removed from the last sites.

The Garden Should be Begun weeks before a seed is sown. The garden should sprout and grow under the gardener's hat for several months before it is made in the ground.