For those who are not overstocked with small palms, and wish for a plant with handsome and graceful foliage, I would recommend Panicum plicatum. It is a grass of the easiest culture, the usefulness of which for decorative purposes can scarcely be over-estimated. A pinch of seed sown in August in a warm house and pricked off, five in a 6-inch pot, made what looked like single plants, 3 feet high and as much through, by December, and when used for decoration in the mansion was very much admired. Its leaves are about two feet long, and three inches broad in the widest part, beautifully plicated, or folded lengthwise, and bent sickle shape, so as to fall gracefully all around the pot. The folds in the leaves make it appear to have several shades, varying from a very light to a dark green color. It is, I think, best treated as an annual, and sown in successional batches. I intend growing it by hundreds. It seems to me not very particular about temperature, but a friend living in Co. Meath, who recommended it to me, says he tried it outside there during the last summer, and it was not satisfactory. ■ It is, however, worth a trial in sheltered situations in the south of England. - Wm. Taylor, in Gardeners Chronicle.