Since coming to Colorado, I have had a little experience that is new to me, and that puzzles me not a little.

When I came here I brought some onions of the common button variety, that had for a number of years behaved properly in Kansas, producing sets and large onions alternately, as regularly as the seasons came. The first year here they produced an enormous crop of sets, but the first of August, before they were perfectly matured, there came a severe hail-storm that beat them down and bruised them considerably. The next year when planted, a large per cent. of these sets, instead of making large onions, sent up seed stalks and produced sets. The past year the same thing has occurred. But another strange thing has happened; the large onions set out last spring seem to have also lost their instinct, and instead of sending up seed stalks and producing sets, as well-bred onions should, they simply divided up and produced a number of onions, some of them of large size, after the style of potato onions.

Another experience 1 have had that does not correspond with the rules laid down in the books, has been with some cabbage. A year ago last spring I planted some plants of early cabbage - Burpee's, No. 2, I believe. These were planted on new " Park" land, that had not been thoroughly leveled for irrigation. Some of them, planted in some rows of small trees, did not receive sufficient water and so did not grow much, and when winter came on they were only good large plants. They stood there all winter exposed to the weather, the temperature falling as low as -260. But they survived and came out all sound and living in the spring. The ground between the trees was cultivated the past year, but that directly in the rows was not disturbed, and so some of this cabbage was left to grow, and strange to say, they made a good growth and produced good solid heads of several pounds weight. The high altitude and rare atmosphere, or regular irrigation, or some unknown cause, seems to have turned the heads of these things till they forgot what they should do under the circumstances.

Our tomato vines were affected with some disease during the past year that caused almost a failure of that crop in this vicinity. About the time the earliest fruit was half-grown the plants assumed a dark, unhealthy appearance. The leaves were dwarfed and the growth was very slow and meager. A fair crop of fruit set on but it did not grow to exceed one-half the ordinary size. The fruit seemed to color without properly ripening, having a sickly, translucent appearance and lacking the fine flavor for which the tomatoes of this region are noted. Canon City, Col.

[These experiences are very interesting. They illustrate a point often dwelt on in our pages, that horticulture requires special study in almost every locality in order to be adapted to these localities. The onion in most parts of the United States, behaves differently to what it does in Great Britain, where a bulb 12 inches round can be obtained in a few months. It requires some knowledge of why a cabbage heads at all, or an onion makes a bulb, before the "principles" of their culture can be adapted to occasions. The tomato seems to have suffered from one of the forms of potato fungus - Perenospora. It would be worth looking at with a microscope next year. - Ed. G. M].