Last year England gave £5,000, and again this year, to assist education and research, and this looks very trifling besides ,what other countries are doing. France in her budget for 1888-9 voted £163,600; Belgium, provides by the central government, £30,800, and by provincial governments, £20,300; Holland has a Department of Agriculture, but has recently voted funds for Agricultural institutions, and previously was spending £7,446 (of which over £1,800 was returned by produce) on forestry, dairy, and veterinary schools ; Denmark, in the budget for 1889-90, provided for £56,680 ; in Germany the agricultural budget for the same years was over half a million, of which nearly £52,000 is for education and science, and over £40,000 for the veterinary department, while provincial administrations pay out £13,000, and are subsidized besides to about £6,648. There are also heavy subventions to institutions which are great aids to agriculture. - The Horticultural Times.

Cold for the past six years on my grounds better than any other variety. The cold of 1886 did not kill it; the cold of last March only hurt a few trees that were full of sap. I have several hundred nursery trees grafted on sweet stocks that did not shed a leaf, although some of them were only a foot high. My experience is, it will stand Florida cold without damage, unless an untimely frost catches it full of sap. - F. Trueblood, in Florida Dispatch.