This fine, tropical-looking plant is not half so much patronized, as it deserves to be; for, independent of the rigid, uniform appearance its foliage always presents, no flowering plant, that we are acquainted with, can equal it for length of spike and number of florets expanded at one time. It is true, they do not flower well in every situation; but, where they do succeed, no plant of late introduction gives so distinct a feature as this yucca. The yucca gloriosa is, perhaps, of the yuccas, most highly esteemed, and a finer object when in blossom, can hardly be conceived. It is majestic, bold, and even grand. It is a common remark that every plant is a weed in its own country; but it would be hard to call this a weed, although we meet with a forest of them. Wherever it is desireable to impress an exotic character, wherever what is called "sentinels " are needed, and near to buildings of any kind, there the yucca will be found at home. The Irish yew is another most distinct and significant tree, wherever stiff formality or deep contrast is required.

And then its color is so good; perhaps one of the darkest shades of green we possess.

Without trying some experiments, what is the real use of a garden at all? The best gardeners in the country, try experiments every week of their lives, and, at the end of the longest life, one only begins to see how much more there is to do and to learn. The only secret about experiments which amateurs should know, is this - Never to depend on the issue of an experiment; make sure of your crop or bed, or anything in hand, and let your experiments be extra.

The most inexperienced fruit grower may soon rival and outshine the most successful of old practitioners, if he will only give himself the trouble to thoroughly understand and execute two facts well ascertained and fully established. First, that extreme luxuriance in growth, and extreme fertility in fruit, are entirely antagonistic to each other. The second, which is only a repetition or modification of the first, is, that the rapid luxuriant production of timber, and the early production of well-flavored fruit, are most easily and thoroughly secured, by the roots being placed in circumstances entirely different; depth of soil, moisture, and richness, being not more necessary in one case, than comparative shallowness, dryness, and soil unstuffed with rank manure, in the other.