Burchellia capensis is now in bloom, and I like it. Sparmannia Africana makes too much foliage for the amount of flower to be useful as a flowering plant.

Eriostemon scaber and others are good. I have got as good a plant as any one has, of Mackoya bella - in a 7-inch pot - but I have never seen a flower on it yet. I shall be more than grateful if some of your correspondents will tell me what I shall do to make it bloom. Brownea coccinea has not bloomed here yet, but it's very interesting to watch the new foliage in the course of development.

What I got for Anthurium feriensis is now in bloom, but the flower does not seem to correspond with the plate in the catalogues. However, I will wait for another flower before I condemn it.

The pleasantest forenoon I spent in a long time was a day or so ago with our mutual friend in horticulture, W. H. Chadwick, Esq., the celebrated orchid amateur of Chicago. I was glad to find Mr. Chadwick not of a class of visitors that want to get away before hardly there. They see all in five minutes. To another class everything looks like a Calla Lily or a "Wax Begonia;" and,"have you got any Smilax?" is about about all the inquiry they have to make. Mr. C, like a good soldier, will dispute every inch of ground in the houses and outside, and if there be anything he does not know he is not ashamed to inquire; but when he gets in an orchid house he is a perfect revelation. It is too bad we see so few like him.

I have four varieties of Passiflora in bloom in the houses; and the city is redolent with the perfume of Magnolia fuscata. And orange blossoms have got to be such a nuisance. I have to rake them up two or three times a week to keep them from scalding the grass.

New Orleans, La., April 6th.