Florida Horticultural Society

The Florida Nurserymen's Association has merged into a new body with the above title. A. I. Bidwell is president, and S. L. Taber secretary. The next meeting will be held at Ocala.

Why The Trees Did Not Live, P. 263

I would suggest as possible reasons for the difference, a second exposure in taking out after heeling in; and if some days of warm dry weather intervened, it might make considerable difference; and another point may have been in the location; and still another, depth of covering.

The Sweet Pea

Will not succeed here on account of the hot summers. I have tried them repeatedly and this season in the shade of a building, but as soon as extreme hot weather came they dwindled down and only gave two or three miserable clusters. My son reports them a failure in Monmouth County also.

White Everlasting Pea

The perennial or Everlasting pea, has not proved as popular as the annual ones for cut flower work. There is not the same variety of color in it, nor are the colors so rich. A pure white variety has however been raised which is said to be very desirable for cutting.

This is no new thing but it is difficult to get, as more than half the seeds from the white variety come red.

Hammonton, N. J.

The Mammoth Sequoia

Mr. Webster, in the Garden, speaks of this tree "dwindling away" in places where they are exposed. In American gardens, exposed or not, it dwindles away from the virulent attack of a fungus, Cerco-spora Sequoiae, and we think it quite likely this is the trouble in the old world. Not one tree in a hundred escapes here. Sometimes the tree is wholly killed before it is three years old, and of the many hundreds we have known planted only one exists now.

English Ivy

A correspondent of Vick's Magazine says this does admirably at Nantucket. It is probably one of the most lovely of all our creeping or climbing plants, and is always appreciated even for its classical associations. It does not like bright warm sun in winter; wherever this can be avoided it is perfectly hardy in any part of the United States.

Irruption Of New Roses

Some of the greatest accessions to the lists of roses were made in 1827, when Noisette, of Paris, sent out thirty-five new ones, and Manget, of Orleans, twenty-five. No one would think of sending out that many novelties in a single year now. Surely the world is growing more virtuous with age.