A lady writes; " Our Washington Territory weather is nothing if not in an extreme one way or another. March and half of April were hot and dry as July usually is. Spring-blooming bulbs were scorched with heat, and 'June roses' bloomed in April. Now we have had two weeks of cold rain, and some hail, and prospect of 'more.' Mrs. Thomson's plan for propagating reminds me that I used to fill my wash-boiler with boiling water, set over it a shallow box with the bottom thickly perforated, and in that, covering all the openings, set the cans of slips I wished to root. I thought the bottom heat thus obtained of service. The 'York and Lancaster' Rose is very-common here. People call it the Calico Rose. I am very glad of a better name. F. E. B".