P. H. Obberwetter suggests we report upon our successes and failures in acclimatizing exotic plants, bulbs, etc., which suggestion I meet with report of my failures this fall. Alas ! how many successes to reward me 1 am yet to know. All of last year I was busy collecting bulbs, plants and tubers from Maine to California; also sent an order to Holland for bulbs with view of testing their suitability to this climate. Many I planted direct in open ground, but others, such as Freezias, Babianias, Lachenelias, Sparaxis, Ixias, Moreas, etc., I potted in large numbers, with this result - not one bulb left. Every one, even to Hyacinths, first froze and then rotted. Of every one potted under glass, but three Bermuda lilies and all of my varieties of Narcissus, are gone; Cyclamens and Eucharis Amazonica also. In open air my Galanthus nivea, or snow drops, a new flower to me, is now, March 1st, in full flower. This spring beauty I think is overrated; with me stems are not two inches long, but its pearly whiteness and exquisite dainty beauty claims admiration. Roman Hyacinths did not freeze in pit or damage to any great extent. Those I have now both in pit and out doors in profusion. These potted bulbs were all stored in my old pit wherein I had not for years recorded any losses.

In open air I planted Alstromeria, Cooperia, Habranthus, Amaryllis, etc., with result yet undecided. On January 9th to 12th thermometer registered 8, 10 and 12 degrees below zero, whilst to us the unusual sight was seen of young people skating on ice from 6 to 8 inches thick for full ten days. I am or was the happy owner of over two hundred named roses; all are more or less injured, whilst many are killed outright. Rustic arbors, which aforetimes were covered with Marechal Niel, Marie Henriette, Salfaterre and Le Marquise, all dead, whilst trellises look like hundreds of yards of black wire was entangled upon them. Euony-mus and wild orange hedges will have to be taken up entirely; but this state of affairs will not most likely occur again, the would be comforters will say; but who knows and who can tell why this awful devastating cold came now, which has so appalled and discouraged the dwellers of the "Sunny South?" Sunny South, indeed ! we are more like the Polar regions, any way, this winter.

Spartanburg, South Carolina.