Under this heading in August number I read with much pleasure and interest the above referred to article, and can corroborate and add to what "P. H. O." has so well said. I am well acquainted with and cultivate some five or six varieties, and am experimenting with others.

Whilst in Charleston, S. C, in April, some five years since, I saw one border 3 feet wide by 30 feet long, with hundreds of bulbs of A. Johnsonii in full flower, some stalks having as many as ten flowers. I could scarcely credit my eyes when this dazzling sight first presented itself, for I had always considered it as purely a greenhouse plant and had tenderly cared for my one prized bulb as such for years, and made an exhibition plant of it whenever in flower; and here spread at my feet were hundreds upon hundreds of those exquisitely beautiful flowers in open border. Becoming acquainted with the owner of the place, I questioned him and was assured they were A. Johnsonii and as hardy as a Narcissus. He kindly gave me bulbs, which have flowered since regularly in open border. I am now in negotiation with a friend who proposes sending me one bushel of small bulbs for equal quantity of Narcissi; which goes to prove their abundance in Florida at least.

Another variety, A. Hallii, I see offered by Hovey, Boston, as hardy that far north, is quite pleasing. Bulbs often size of pint cup, procumbent leaves 1½inches wide by 24 to 30 inches long; flower (only fully expanded one day) pale flesh with deep rose stripe down its centre; flow, ers followed by seed-pods often size of an egg. Second day, flower begins to fold up, assumes the form of a trumpet and deepens in color to a pleasing pink. Two bulbs in my garden this spring each threw up 2½ feet high flower stalks, with ten flowers each, making 60 in all to two bulbs. This variety I find does not multiply rapidly - as it had no increase whatever in the five years I had them. On Decoration Day, in the same city, where the graves of many of our loved Confederate soldiers are, I saw dozens of wreathes, crosses, lyres, anchors, composed of this and a white variety - name not known.

Of the A. Sarniensis or true Guernsey Lily, so high priced and enjoyed at the North only by forcing, 1 have seen in one yard great clumps (equal in size to Hemorocallis lutea) of them, with from ten to fifty flowers in full perfection. This, to me, is the best of the whole section and differs so widely in its habits that even if tiresome I will describe minutely. After obtaining bulbs and planting, they remain dormant until about the 15th of September, when the glory of our gardens is fading, and we begin to realize that stern winter, with cold blasts, is approaching. Walking through our grounds you are attracted by a spathe-covered bud pushing through the soil, which in a few days unfolds and presents a dazzling gleam of scarlet, appearing in sunlight as if sprinkled with gold dust. A stout stem, one foot high, with the flowers arranged in whorls on top of stem, from five to seven, generally six, in a perfect floret. These individual flower-petals are j^-inch wide 2 inches long, with beautiful wavy outlined edges, recurved so as to touch the flower stalks, furnished with numerous stamens and pistils also recurved; pure red, which makes the flower appear like a round gossamer ball.

When the flower fades then the tardy leaflets appear, ½ inch wide by 8 inches long; close to the ground with pale white stripe down the center. There this brave green thing remains, cheering the eye with its bright color during our hardest and dreariest weather. In later spring it, too, dries off to reappear again in new beauty in fall. The bulbs multiply with great rapidity, and in a peculiar manner, - as usual with all bulbs by small ones at side - but in addition by a bulb forming upon the neck of the bulb, i. e., between the parent and the surface of the ground; looks as though the stalk had grown through a young bulb. I have in old established clumps often found six to eight in this way.

Still another one, called Amaryllis by early botanists, but now merged into Zephyranthes - Z. Atamasco - is a native here and known extensively as Fairy Lily in cottage gardens. By florists this beautiful variety of Amaryllis is too well known and too profusely written about to need description. Suffice it to say, that it well deserves a place, and honored one, on the list. No flower I cultivate gives me such generous returns for the care bestowed. Bulbs small and almost the tiniest give you from one to three flowers per season, which adds grace and beauty wholly its own to any vase of cut flowers. A. Atamasco rosea exactly like in shape and size is a fit companion to A. Atamasco.

I, a native of the fair South-land; loving it with eager impetuosity; thank the kind Editor of the Gardeners' Monthly for his true praise of this beauteous country, only telling truthfully of the grand capabilities (only partially developed) of this favored portion of the Union; and that others reading may be induced to verify his statements. Whilst with you of the cold North, frost king holds high carnival, we gather flowers the whole year; Violets from under the December snows (when we have that rare thing, a snow), Christmas blooming Lonicera, at Christmas tide; Narcissus and Roman Hyacinths in early February, followed in grand succession by myriads in March, April and May. Our gardens we begin always in February, and last spring our Narcissus were in flower in open border when forced ones were commanding twenty-five cents per stem in New York. Come and see for yourselves.

Spartanburg, S. C.