A correspondent says : "Last fall I saw an 'Encyclopaedia of Gardening,' published in London, in 1825, and was surprised to see mention of things that have been offered as new' within the last ten years; also to see how well known and how much used were our beautiful native shrubs, especially azaleas, rhododendrons and other Ericaceae".

[Most of the Ericaceae delight in a moist atmosphere. They get more of this in England, and hence thrive better there than they generally do here in their native country. It does seem that even among plants, as well as among human beings, there is a longing for " a better land " than that in which they may be sojourners, and that that longing may not be altogether an ungrounded hope. These Ericaceous plants go in England under the distinctive name of "American plants".

In respect to plants, we suspect that when Solomon said there was nothing new under the sun, he must have had them in view. Fashions change. In gardening the things now "the rage" quiet down in the near future. Not long ago there was a great demand all over the world for "new hot and greenhouse plants." On the table before us is a letter from a leading dealer in England stating that the trade in them has almost wholly died out. In a few years the introduced plants will also die. But with the revolving wheel of time the taste will come again, the plants will have to be re-introduced, when they will be wholly "new" to the multitude.