An Illinois correspondent says : " How few people know when they are well off. ' A rare lover of coniferae' on page 4, January number of the Monthly, says, 'If I were a nurseryman and twenty years younger, I would get up a good stock of these two species of pine (P. flexilis and P. Murryana), because I believe they will become very popular when known.'

"It may be he would, but if he lives to be twenty years older than he is now, his views would change again. I invested in the first collections and was doubly happy one day by the news of the capture of Jefferson Davis and the first sight of my seed" lings. Then I invested $60 more on the Rocky Mountain seeds. It is now twenty years ago, and I have not yet sold one tree of these species; but one of Pinus flexilis. Picea pungens, and P. Dou-glassii are growing in public estimation".