Having succeeded in keeping the different sorts of Verbenas in small pots through the winter, when my neighbors have failed, I beg to state the method I adopt In the first or second week in July, I strike in 8-inch pots as many cuttings of the different kinds as I require for filling the beds in the following year, about six pots of a sort being sufficient Early in August, the pots being filled with roots, I prepare as many boxes, two feet square, as I have sorts, filling one-third of each box with broken tiles, and the rest with one part sand, one leaf mould, and two parts good rich loam. The plants are then placed in them at equal distances apart, and the shoots being pegged down they soon take root all over the box, and form one mass. The boxes are placed in a cold frame during the winter, and the lights are thrown off, except in wet or frcsty weather. Early in the spring they begin to make young shoots, which I pot in 3 inch pots, and strike in a Cucumber frame; these will be ready to plant out by the end of April, at which time the boxes are turned out, one side being removed, and the mass planted in the centre of a bed.

The bed is then filled up with the young plants from the 8-inch pots; those out of the boxes, being oldest and strongest, take the lead and keep it; thus the plants in the centre of the bed, being the highest, a striking effect is produced. - G. F., Gard Chron.