We scarcely can name a single plant that is more useful in ornamenting a garden than the Canna major; the leaf has an oriental appearance, shall we say more palmlike than anything else so easily obtained? Its bulbs increase much every season; before frost they should be taken up, and kept rather dry under the stage of a greenhouse; they will grow larger if started in a hot-bed in the spring, and then plant them out in a bed that has been dug out to the depth of two feet, with Borne manure to give them a little warmth to start with, and the bed filled up with refuse potting soil, or the richer soil of the garden. Grouped, or in a circle, they are very ornamental; the same of Canna Indica, which bears flowers; another circle may consist of Canna discolor. They all love water. The Chinese Peonies require a rich light soil; good sandy loam suits them well, and they are readily propagated by dividing the roots in April or May, when the young shoots are a finger long.

"If after a decoction of herbs In a winter night," says an old author, " we expose the liquor to the frigid air, we may observe in the morning under a crust of ice, the perfect appearance, both in figure and color, of the plants that were taken from it." Peter. (Just so; and if you think of your lady love before a refracting telescope, you will see her next morning ironing your collars before breakfast; after which she will inspect the state of your wristband buttons, and before night comb Your head. Try it).

A correspondents writes for a list of the best continuous-blooming Roses - will find a capital list in our volume for 1856, page 224. The following is from Glenny's (London) Garden Almanack: