By one of the visitors to the Florists' Convention it was a pleasure to learn that, notwithstanding advancing years, the generous proprietor, Mr. Henry Shaw, was still enjoying robust health.

He has recently published by the aid of his intelligent gardener, Mr. Gurney, a catalogue of the economic plants growing there, with the uses in the arts and sciences to which they are applied. It fills 53 pages, and is given freely to visitors or others who may want to be instructed as well as pleased by the interesting plants collected there. A large number of extremely rare and yet famous plants are in the collection, the famous Upas tree being among them.