*** remarks: "The common name of the Heliotrope with the Peruvians is 'Vanilla;' whether borrowed from the orchid bean of that name, or whether the Vanilla bean is so called from the resemblance of the perfume to that of the Heliotrope, we do not know." - Gardeners' Monthly, p. 91.

The name Vanilla, as applied to the Heliotrope, was transferred from the Vanilla-pod, which is so similar in odor to the flowers of Heliotropium Europaeum, that it is largely used by perfumers in the manufacture of extract of Heliotrope and Heliotrope sachet powder.

"The late Latin word, Vanilla (adopted in English), is an alteration of Spanish Vainilla, a diminutive of Vaina, 'pod,' from Latin, Vagina, 'sheath.' The plant was so called from its important commercial product - its long, slender, aromatic seed-pods".

[Ruiz and Pavon in the " Flora of Peru," say the flower is commonly called Vaynilla; the name is evidently given to it, as our correspondent shows, from the odor resembling that of the celebrated "pod or sheath" of the orchid of this name.

As regards its first introduction to English gar-dens, it may be well here to quote from Miller's "Gardeners' Dictionary." " It has a strong sweet odor, of a very particular nature, resembling bitter almonds. It grows naturally in Peru, whence the seeds were sent by the younger Jussieu to the Royal Garden in Paris. Mr. Miller had the seeds 1757, from the curious garden of the Due d'Ayen at St. Germain. It flowers here in England a great part of the year." - Ed. G. M].