Several years ago, when I first commenced to take the Monthly, I never read the advertisements; now, they are the first part I look over, to see if there be anything new. We get all novelties, whether plants or seeds, likely to do well here. I got seed of Impatiens Sultani when it was first advertised in London. It is the best new thing we have found in a long time. I have one plant now that was out all summer, in a 7-inch pot, covered with bloom. Tops taken off about three weeks ago, are now in thumbs, with four and five flowers on each. Tops of Ginura aurantiaca, taken off in the fall, look real pretty now in 3 and 4-inch pots, but it is coarse and weedy looking planted out. The best three flowering plants here, at this time, are, Centropogon Lucianus, Delechampia Roesliana rosea, and Meyenia erecta. In climbing plants we have nothing comes near to Ipomcea Horsfallii.

Some one going through one of our houses a day or so ago, asked me what " Solanum " something was ? Well, it was Luculia gratissima, and the more I look at it, the more it does look like some Solanum. I don't think I care so much about Luculia gratissima as I did. [You will when it flowers freely. - Ed. G. M].

Jasmineum gracillimum does not come up to my expectations. Along with some of the newer varieties of Rex Begonias received last season from London, I got two flowering varieties, namely, Amabilis and Ascotensis, highly recommended as winter bloomers. I have several good healthy plants of each in 5-inch pots, but I don't think I shall ever know, by them, when winter has arrived over the water, for as yet, they don't look as if they ever would bloom.

Parties often inquire of me the reason their Dendrobiums never appear to grow so well as when they put them to rest. I have not much time for correspondence, and it might be as good a time as any for your correspondent, Epiphyte, if he could spare the time, or some one else that can put it in words better than I, to explain this. Circumstances don't admit of getting them just right all the time myself. The time for rest is the season we have most rain here; consequently more moisture in the atmosphere. And besides, I have to rest them amongst growing plants. I know some amateurs who get them to perfection, and no one puts a hand to them but themselves.

Gardener to Prof. Richardson, New Orleans.