A London paper says that " any one who can remember the homes of the poor in London fifteen or twenty years ago in our back streets and slums will bear us out in saying that scarcely a flower-pot was seen in their rooms or on their window-ledges outside. At the period. in which we write you can scarcely go through a street and find a window without some plants in it, either outside or in. This fact being recognized, we come to the natural conclusion that the taste for flowers has increased more than ten thousand fold during the last twelve or fourteen years, and that consequently horticultural and floricultural knowledge has infused into the mind of the people generally a greater love for flowers, thereby improving their tastes and tending to make their homes happier. Then we have to look at the effect of a love for flowers from a commercial point of view. Twelve years ago the number of growers who attended Covent Garden Market could be counted by the number of fingers on our hands. Now they are to be counted by hundreds, and the people employed in the production of flowers by many thousands."