Lobelia Trigonocaulis

A handsome decumbent half hardy or greenhouse perennial, having laciniate subpinnatifid leaves and large axillary flowers, blue with a white centre, resembling those of L. ramosa. but paler. It is a free-flowering plant, and will probably be useful for bedding out. Moreton Bay.

Loco Foco

Large, green, and like in leaf to Silesia, suitable for winter, being hardy.

Lodge

Dr. Brinckle*: Good in the Middle States. Mr. Terry, Conn.: Does not crack with us; ripens well. Mr. Cabot: The Massachusetts Horticultural Society considers it equal to Brown Beurr6 in the east. Ripens September 15th. Mr. Prince: Objects to snarly fruit as well as snarly trees. Mr. Terry: On pear stock it is equal to Urbaniste - very productive. Mr. Walker: Flavor is fine - tree bad. Mr. Buist: Tree thirty feet high on pear stock, loaded with fruit - on quince it is indifferent. Mr. Hovey: Hope it will be recommended for general cultivation. Mr. Reid: Grows well, but rots rapidly.

Logan

Quite early.' Bunch and berry, good size, sweet, and excellent.

The Logan Grape

Mr. A. Thompson, of Delaware, Ohio, writes a highly favorable account of a new native grape called the Logan. It is a black grape, ripening before the Catawba, and preferred to the Isabella, and is believed to be a wilding of Ohio; hardy, vigorous; wood, short-jointed and compact; distinct in wood and foliage, productive, and probably the earliest hardy grape of fair quality in cultivation, and will ripen its fruit several degrees further north than the Isabella and Catawba.

Lomutia Elegantissima

An extremely elegant evergreen greenhouse ahrub, with Fern-like foliage. New Caledonia.

The London Rose Show

Up to the time of going to press, we have not, of course, received the account of the London Rose Exhibition, which took place in early July. Thirty-six silver cups were the prizes. An amount of interest was awakened, the results of which we shall record in our next issue.

Long Worth's Prolific Strawbery

In a note recently received from Mr. Longworth he says: "You will find the Prolific of more value than all the seedlings ever raised. We have many good pistillates, but never before a hermaphrodite with all blossoms perfect in both organs, and bearing a full crop of moderate sized fruit. The hermaphrodite fruit is uniformly large and of fine quality." He also asks the question, "If Mr. Meehan can, as he says, produce hermaphrodite flowers on a pistillate plant, in pot-culture in houses, what bearing can it have on the necessity of a knowledge of the sexual organs in ordinary American culture ?" It is certainly true that however it may be in forcing the strawbery, a knowledge of the sexual organs of varieties is indispensable to out-door culture.

Longevity

Our forefathers entertained the erroneous belief that the lose by perspiration abbreviated life. Manpertius recommended that the body, therefore, should bo covered with pitch, and Garden actually argued that trees lived longer than animals because they took no exercise 1