It has long been charged that when some seedsmen have but a limited supply of expensive seeds, they get cheap kinds that resemble them, roast them to prevent germination, and consequent detection, and then mix with the rare kind. The grower is surprised at the liberality that gives so much for the money, and generally attributes the slender crop, to anything than the real cause. An Australian correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle, stated that the seed trade of that country was fast passing into American firms, because of the prevalence of this trick among English houses. Messrs. James Carter & Co., of London, write indignantly in reply, and challenge the New Zealander to produce a single proof, and utterly repudiates the charge as against the London trade.