Why would not the Kerguelen-Land Cabbage (Pringlea antiscorbutica) be a valuable plant to introduce into Alaska ? It is noteworthy that Heard's Island, which is even more remote and bleak than Kerguelen or Desolation Island itself, has a species of wild cabbage, valued by mariners and seal-catchers as an article of food. Fuegia, where the excellent bishop of the Falkland Islands is conducting a successful and very interesting missionary work, ought to be a good place for the Pringlea to thrive in, and in no country is such a plant more needed.

If I remember rightly, Mr. Darwin found in Soutnern Patagonia a very palatable wild celery. Now, since our cultivated celery is said to be the offspring or development of a wild plant which is scarcely palatable, why should not the wild Pata-gonian plant be capable of a desirable improvement in cultivation ? Novelties in the market-garden are always in order.

I lately had an interview with a gentleman who has visited Patagonia. He states that no country in the world promises better for cattle-ranching than the northern two-thirds of that region. The climate is good, the country grassy and well watered, with good harbors, and few wild animals, except Indians. Merchantville, N. J.