Have had what may be called an open winter, the thermometer never marking lower than 10° F. above zero. Occasional snows and sleets but no snow-storm leaving above three inches on the ground, and that generally dissipated by the sun within two or three days. Yet our roses are more severely injured than for years past. Teas and Noisettes killed to the root; Hybrid Perpetuals cut back to within six to fifteen inches of the ground, while evergreens have not suffered at all - even Euonymus japonicus (which is generally injured) shows no sign of rough weather. Why is this? Devoniensis and Bon Silene roses withstood the winter while T. de Luxembourg and Safrano (all adjacent) were destroyed.

The white moth is attacking sweet scented Geraniums here and not touching Coleus in the same house. Will you or some one of your correspondents who have used Pyrethrum against the cabbage worm give manner of use and results?

[Plants which stand a temperature of some degrees below freezing, do not die from "frost," that is cell-rupture, as geraniums, tomatoes, and such plants do; but from evaporation of the juices faster than the roots can supply them. Just how evaporation injured the roses, local examination only could show. - Ed. G. M.]