This is very much appreciated here during the dark dull days of winter, and as it can be had by any one possessing an ordinary greenhouse, it is a pity it is not oftener seen than it is. To get up a stock of plants for this purpose, it is only necessary to pull the requisite number of pieces off old plants, and insert them in ordinary soil on a shady border about the beginning of August. Seeds sown about the end of June will furnish plants equally suitable. Cuttings strike root without any particular care, and if put in at the time and in the manner indicated, will become plants ready for potting off about the beginning of October. We use 4 1/2 - and 5-inch pots, and in potting, take any potting-soil handy. Lifted with good balls, they never know they are moved. After they have stood in the shade for a day or two, we place them in an ordinary frame on a dry site, and here they are treated to all the air going in all weather, the lights only being used for the purpose of keeping oil' heavy rains.

As they are rapid rooters the pots soon fill with roots, and care is taken to prevent them flagging for want of water; otherwise they are kept as dry as possible, and this tends to make them free-flowering. In ordinary mild winters they will bloom in the frames, and in any case are sure to do so very early in spring. To have Forget-me-nots all winter is, however, the easiest task imaginable, and all that is wanted in the way of forcing is to bring in a few pots at a time into any house kept at greenhouse temperature, when they will throw up their trusses in a week or two, and continue blooming for a long time.

Few flowers are more appreciated; and if once it is grown in winter as described, it will be in demand ever after. For those with little means of producing flowers in winter this is an invaluable plant.

Gardener.