What is said on page 114. with regard to the slow growth of this tree, may apply to the Virginia variety ; but it is not true of the Rocky Mountain kind. I have scores of four-year-old seedlings of the latter, that are from five to seven feet high. It will outgrow the White pine as well as the Norway, White and Douglas spruces, and most of the other evergreens, except the Scotch and Austrian pines. The sharp-leaved variety grows faster than the round-leaved. I think trees large enough for fence posts can be grown in eight years from the seed. - A. C. S., Glexwood, Iowa.

Red Cedar #1

To what does A. C. S. refer (p. 185) to as the Rocky Mountain variety of red cedar ? This is the trouble with so-called common names. Does he mean that he has Juniperus virginiana from the Rocky Mountains, or some other tree that has been christened red cedar ? Here Juniperus virginiana is called red cedar, Cupressus Thyoides is called "juniper" and Taxodium distichum is called cypress, and so it is everywhere that the "common" names some people are so fond of create confusion. - W. F. Massey, N. C. Experiment Station.