I feel sympathy for the correspondent who is seeking light on that list of outlandish names given on page 155, May number. I think, that the "Sheep's Horns" is Martynia proboscidia, also called "Devil's Hooks." "Aaron's beard" is, I think, a white drooping spiraea, but cannot give specific name. The "Sun-dial plant" inquired for some time ago, is no doubt the garden Lupine which is often called by that name, also "Old man's face" and " Monkey face," from the grotesque face on the seeds. My school-mates used to vex my soul by calling Spring Beauties, (Claytonia) " Puppy's foot flowers " from the form of the root. A lady once wrote to exchange plants, offering among other things, " Proud Lucifer, white and blue;" which proved to be common Iris, her name of course a corruption of Flower de luce. My first introduction to Gladioluses was as "Gladnesses," and I knew an old lady in Iowa who called them "Olluses," and the beautiful Calystegia, "Cast Ages," and I think enjoyed them even with these barbarous names.

The pretty rose, "York and Lancaster," described in a late Gardeners' Monthly is abundant here, and known as the " Calico Rose." I am much obliged to Mrs. Thomson for giving us its pretty and romantic name.