The English florists are enthusiastic in their praises of the new white Lobelia, named While Perfection. A correspondent of the Journal of Horticulture writes as follows: "A really good white-flowering bedding plant is a great desideratum, whether it be a Geranium, Verbena, Lobelia, or anything else. We are still very deficient of white flowering plants for the flower garden, though of white foliage we have plenty; but in cold wet situations like mine, it seems wonderful that this Lobelia should have done so well. It is what may be called a white strain of Lobelia speciosa, and much praise is due to the Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, for sending out such an excellent variety. Never did the Committee of the Roval Horticultural Society award a better merited certificate. It is not to be expected that so great a flirt as the Lobelia is, should be in this instance, quite constant to color from seed; yet, notwithstanding a few true blues which put in an appearance, it is remarkably pure - none of your half pink, half blue, and half-a-dozen other shades, but a white, as its name denotes, to perfection. Nothing can be more even in growth, standing from five to six inches high, of a semi-erect habit, and the whole mass a sheet of pure white.

I certainly had some misgivings until I saw the first blooms, but then with much gratification I beheld a genuine white Lobelia."

An old Acacia, brought from America to Paris by Vespasian Robin, arborist to Louis 13th, 237 years ago, is sending out a new shoot from its trunk, having resisted the disastrous effects of last winter's extreme cold.