I have no hesitation in saying that, under ordinary circumstances, there is no necessity whatever for growing Seakale two years before forcing; it is labour lost. Plants grown from chopped roots make a lot of spray which has to be regularly thinned out, and during the growing season the crowns left have to be watched, and the seed-stems removed when they appear, which further induces the plants to make lateral growths, which have again to be thinned out in their turn, and in the end, though perhaps two or three good crowns will be secured to each plant, they will be no better than seedlings of one year's growth. I say this after having adhered to the seedling plan, and no other, for nine years. We never have a successional quarter of Seakale; we cannot afford the room, but force a whole quarter of seedling plants every year. Without extraordinary culture, we have had plants from seed more than 5 feet across by October. At this date, Sept. 15, we have them above 4 feet, generally, with robust crowns, and roots like Carrots, seed-plants which will throw heads, when they come to be forced, that ought to satisfy any one.

Before long, gardeners will be planning their crops for another year; I should therefore advise them to go in for the seedling plan without fear - for very many yet stick to the dibbling process - and they will save both time and space. Our Seakale quarter is not always trenched, but just as often only dug; generally following Potatoes or Celery. To guard against failure of a crop, which is the only risk by seed, it is worth while to red-lead the seeds and to sow thick. The first will effectually stop all depredations from vermin, and thick sowing will insure a crop. It is soon enough to sow by the end of March or beginning of April. On one occasion, and the only one on which he had to sow twice, the seed was put in about the 10th of June; and with a little coaxing we had plants fit for forcing by the end of the season. 'Some of the best seed we ever used was gathered from wild plants on the coast of Wales. The seeds were small, but the plants turned out as usual. J. S.

Treatise on the Vine,' now in its seventh edition. And I may further add, that I consider anything that I can say, in the light of such a work, to be, in a certain sense, a work of supererogation; only, writing a work on Fruit Culture under Glass, I could not, of course, omit the Vine - it would be like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet omitted.