The hardiness of the Gladiolus is referred to in the May number. They will survive most winters here without any protection. I have them now 8 inches high from roots left last fall; but it is seldom that the mercury falls to zero, and the coldest last winter was 160 above, and that only for a few nights in January. Dahlias left in the ground are often uninjured, and do better than those taken up, but in neither way are they as satisfactory as at the East. Though we have no severe cold, there is little hot weather, and the nights are always cool.

La Centre, Washington Ter.

[In Washington Territory the earth is probably covered by snow in the winter which prevents the frost from penetrating deep. Sometimes when an Eastern winter is marked by early and deep snow, the potato will live out all winter, though the atmosphere may be very low. It is usually bitten when the lightest frost reaches it. - Ed. G. M].