Your contributor who writes so interestingly "Among the Flowers," refers to the above plant, better known as the Canary Bird flower. I am surprised to find him saying, " I have not seen one of them in thirty-five years."

I wish I could show him mine, and he would not talk of them as being " three and four feet high, clover-like." It has for several years been a favorite climber with me, and I would not be at all satisfied if I did not have at least eight or ten of them. They grow from ten to eighteen feet in one season from seed sown in May. I have them trained on strings around a very tall cherry tree, which does not have low nor large branches. When they have climbed to the boughs they run out on them in every direction, and with their handsome light green laciniated foliage and lemon-colored bird-like flowers, borne in great profusion, they are a charming sight. Last summer I planted a Coboea scandens with them, and the intermingling of the yellow blossoms with the green and purple bells was "just lovely." So pleased was I with the effect that I have the same arrangement this season. They begin to bloom in June and continue until sharp frosts.

A writer in Vick's Magazine, 1879, writes enthusiastically of a sight he had of them when on a visit to Alnwick Castle, in the north of England. "The first thing that struck me on entering the town was a bay window most charmingly draped with beautiful light green climbers and literally covered with bright lemon-yellow flowers. Now this appeared so strange to me - for the chilly night air had already affected the geranium and other tender outdoor plants - that I had to cross the street, take the Yankee liberty to open the gate, go inside and examine the thrifty beauty. I confess I was not only surprised but greatly interested to find it was only the Canary flower, Tropaeolum peregrinum, a member of the Nasturtium family, and I concluded at once that there should be one cottage in America next summer worth coming miles to see on account of its climbing plants of light green foliage and rich yellow masses of Canary bird flower. This beautiful plant is an annual, and in some of the seed farms near London whole acres of it are raised for seed; the plants are trained on long trellises, and in the blooming season the display is simply gorgeous."

In the various periodicals to which I contribute flower articles, I have called attention to this charming climber and urged its cultivation, and although too late for this season we do hope you will make a note of it and include a packet in your seed order next spring.

I would also recommend Tropaeolum Lobbianum as a very attractive climber. They differ materially from the common running Nasturtium. They will grow from ten to twenty feet in height.

T. L. Coleur de Bismark is brown; Geant des Batailles, carmine; Roi des Noirs, black; Von Moltke, bright bluish rose.