The Marsh Rosemary, or Sea Lavender, Statice Limonium, is at its brightest on the salt marshes now, reminding us that it is time to cut it for winter bouquets. I have dried it by wrapping old newspapers around a bunch and hanging it up somewhere out of the way. Three or four thicknesses of paper will exclude the light, and after two weeks it may be taken down to use with grasses and the similarly dried flowers of Everlastings, Bachelor's Buttons and Celosias. The feathered and plumed Celosias dry easily, but the Cockscomb is quick to rot, particularly if large flowers are used.

A Bacharis halimifolia which I found near College Point, L. I., supplied me with beautiful white flowers one winter, six years ago; but the shrub was winter-killed, for I could not find it the next summer and I have never come across another. Flushing, N. Y.