Odor In Cereus Grandiflorus

"A. G.:" We are indebted to our valued correspondent for the following note: "The Editor of Gardeners' Monthly, on p. 235, has forgotten the old and long-recorded fact that the fragrance of Cereus grandiflorus is intermittent - comes as it were in puffs, at intervals".

Downing's Fruits And Fruit-Trees Of America

Mr. Charles Downing told Mr. Green of the Fruit Grower, that he never had any pecuniary interest in this work. The copyright belongs to Mrs. A. J. Menell, who was formerly Mrs. Andrew Jackson Downing.

Prof. J. G. Lemmon

Prof. J. G. Lemmon and wife, both excellent botanists and explorers, well known to our readers, by the many beautiful flowers they have discovered in their wanderings, passed through Philadelphia in the first week in August, on a short visit to the "old home " in the East before making another plant-hunting journey next year.

The Elm Leaf Beetle

The Entomological division of the Department of Agriculture has issued a full account of this destructive creature. All that is known of its history or means for its destruction are fully stated.

Lily Of The Valley

A correspondent informs us that in the farming districts of Pennsylvania, about Reading, the common people universally call Pyrola rotundifolia, one of the winter greens, Wild Lily of the Valley.

Old Olive Groves In Florida

A Doyles-town, Pa., correspondent writes : "About three years ago I wrote asking thee the name of a grove of exceedingly crooked, twisted, gnarled trees, at the mouth of the St. Johns, Florida. After persistent inquiry it turned out to be an Olive'grove, planted, I doubt not, by early settlers of that part of our coast. It seems there is another Olive grove on an island (Sullivan's) on the coast of Georgia. All the name we could get for these trees when there, was, the 'Devil-tree.' "

Queer Names

A correspondent says: "It is amusing how plants get queer names. ' Joseph on the palings' for Josephine de Malines Pear» reminds me of a joke of a similar kind. Recently a lady friend going through my garden asked a name which I told her was a kind of Lythrum. I was surprised some days afterward to be told that the ' Bed-room ' plant I had called her attention to, was certainly a beautiful thing. She wished me to note by this reference that she had remembered the name".

California Palm

A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle says that in the Lisbon Botanic Garden, our California Palm, Washing-tonia filifera, grows with amazing rapidity. The curator, M. Davean, says : " It is here in Portugal the king of lVilms, as regards its great vigor of growth".