Mr. C. J. Power, of South Framingham, Mass., writes : "I send this day by express (paid), a box containing a spike of Lilium candidum, with twenty-two open flowers, thirteen buds and one undeveloped bud. This grew in a pot with four other bulbs, and is unlike anything I ever saw. The stem, as you will see, is flat, 3/4 x 1/4 inch. Do you think the bulb will continue to sport the same in the future? My only reason for thinking it might, is, that I have in my asparagus bed, a plant which for thirty years has grown with the same kind of a stalk, and with a very large tip. The bulb from which the spike I send grew, was a double one, one side producing the large head, the other sending a shoot which branched when half grown, and produced two spikes, with nine buds and flowers on each".

[This was a truly striking specimen. Probably it would prove hereditary. The Lilium longi-florum floribundum, is of this proliferous class, and is constant. - Ed. G. M.