If you think I am getting troublesome, bear with me this once. I do not think I shall write again for some time. The thermometer as I write is 900 in the shade at my door, and I often catch the shameless thing 40 or 50 worse than that.

Mosquitoes have been here for some time - "every one as big as a shrimp " - and anyone that can write much under those circumstances must be gifted with more patience than has ever fallen to my lot.

Another celebrated amateur, D. T. Brown, Esq., of St. Louis, has been here. Mr. Brown is also one who is not in a hurry when he gets in among good plants. He likes to walk around them, and look at them. He says a good specimen palm is worth a wagon load of flowers. Mr. Brown secured probably the best specimen of a Cycas revoluta in the U. S., from Maitre & Cook, nurserymen here. [We should like to know how large was this specimen, as some Philadelphia conservatories may want to contest this. - Ed].

Mr. John Rock, of San Jose, California, left here a few days ago well pleased with his visit. Mr. Rock was awarded several hundred dollars in money premiums alone, but it is just as likely as not he will never apply for the money. Mr. Rock donated his entire exhibit for the benefit of this city. If the city government decide to beautify the exposition grounds there are enough plants donated now to make it a perfect paradise in three or four years.

At Horticultural Hall the fruit exhibit has disappeared like magic; and with parties removing their exhibits, etc., the place is all topsy turvy. I notice among the orchids Schomburgkia tibicina and S. Lyonsii in bloom; also Stanhopea tigrina lutescens.

My Osmunda Japonica corymbifera and Kasmp-fera Gilbertii, commenced to look bad last fall, so I threw them under the bench. I found them again in March, and shook them out and gave them a clean pot with peat and sand and good drainage. They are two of the prettiest plants I have now in 5-inch pots. Those plants have been figured or editorially noticed, I forget which, in the Monthly already, and may be otherwise familiar to some of your readers.

I have a famous piece of Osmunda regalis fenced in in a shallow corner of the pond, where the roots keep cool and moist all the time. The first Lotus this season, Nelumbium speciosum, opened June 2d; there will be flowers now every day until frost.

With regard to the portion of Mr. Boomkamp's letter in the Monthly for June, that refers to my notes from here, allow me to say that no exhibit was or could be in better condition than that of the " General Bulb Co." at the time Mr. Boomkamp left here.

The exhibit of Cactus, etc., from San Antonio, Texas, was entered on the books of Horticultural Department of World's Exposition by J. Wish-ner & Co, and business cards to that effect distributed at the Exposition, the proof of which I send you. Under those circumstances I don't see what Mr. Erkener has to complain of. He had charge of the exhibit while here.

Prof. Tracy was warmly welcomed by his many friends on his return to look after the exhibit from his State.

In my notes from here in the Monthly for June, page 190, mention is made of Dendrobium Dalhouseanum. As it is there I must have written it so, but the specimen is Dendrobium densi-florum. June 5th, 1885.