Yellow Hybrid Perpetual Rose

Great efforts have been made by Rosarians to get a yellow hybrid perpetual, but without success. Gloire Lyonaise was advertised as such, but is said to be but a poor yellow, and with too much of Madam Falcot, one of its parents, to permit it to be classed as a pure hybrid perpetual.

Ilex Cornuta

The beautiful Chinese Holly has been in America for a quarter of a century, but we seldom see it. It is from Northern China, and is said to stand the winter perfectly in the north of Germany.

Syringa Japonica

Syringa Japonica - is an arborescent species, and indicates a good addition to the larger class of our hardy kinds.

Syringa Ligustrina

This is another strongly arborescent species, of which we have seen flowers for the first time this year. It has the virgate habit of Forsythea suspensa, and the leaves also have some resemblance to the entire leaved condition of that plant. The flowers are sweet, like large bunches of privet flowers.

Soft Soap

A Pittsburgh (Pa.) correspondent asks: "Where can I procure soft soap for greenhouse use in Philadelphia or elsewhere ? I cannot get it in Pittsburgh fit to use; nothing but rubbish. Or is there a good recipe for a home-made article?

[There are so many firms in Philadelphia who supply this that we could not name one more than another without being invidious. An application to any one dealing in florists' supplies ought to bring the article. - Ed. G. M].

Russian Apples

At the recent meeting of the American Pomological Society, Prof. Budd stated that the success anticipated from the introduction of Russian apples had not been wholly realized, and the attempts to improve the ordinary race by crossing with the Siberian race were equally unsatisfactory.

Good Use For Bad Sparrows

Mrs. Mary H. Ramsey tells those who mourn over bad sparrows, through the Montgomery County, Ohio Horticultural Society, that they should do as the English do. Let us have sparrow pie for dinner, and broiled sparrow for tea, and sparrow served for the sick. They are easily caught by placing a few twigs dipped in bird lime about their feeding places. We might thus, at least, hold them in check.

Olive Culture

It is sometimes said that Cotton seed oil is so often sold for Olive oil, and is indeed as fully equal to Olive oil in the uses for which Olive oil is used, that it does not pay to grow the genuine article. But we understand there is a grove at Cannon Point, Georgia, planted a hundred years ago by the then United States Minister to Spain, that last year yielded 200 gallons of oil, selling at prices ranging from $2.50 to $10 a gallon, and is considered very profitable.