"J. H. S." says: " In reading your remarks on Panax Victorias, and our English cousins naming new plants in honor of their nobility or royalty, I thought in this the English have a decided advantage over Americans, who, for want of something new, take old-named varieties of Pelargoniums, and re-christen them, not in honor of royalty, but the nearest approach they can make to it. For instance, Lady Washington, Gen. Grant, Double Gen. Grant, etc. In double Bouvardias they have done precisely as the English".

[From the tenor of our correspondent's remarks, it seems he understood us to ridicule the naming of plants after distinguished personages. We have read over again what we wrote about Panax Victoriae, and cannot imagine how he derived that impression. Our intention, and, we think, our expression, was that when our English friends felt they had something worthy of general regard, they gave it a distinguished name, and we took it simply as an additional warrant that the plant was worthy when so named. We have no objection to distinguished names. - Ed. G. M].