The Salem (Mass.) Register says that during the late cold spell, the earth and ice cracked frequently with a loud report, and in one instance a large linden-tree, on Oliver-street, was split from the roots to the top of the trunk, with an explosion like a piece of ordnance.

Stainton's "Entomologist's Annual," 12mo., pp. 173, goes on with unabated interest. The little volume before us, for 1859, besides having a nice colored figure of rarities captured during the season, contains a valuable paper by Dr. Hagen, on British Phryganeids, a list of all living British Entomologists, except those living in London, and a copious catalogue of the new British Hymenopters, Coleopters and Lepidopters. (Will our Entomological friends pardon us for dismissing the pedantic Latin terminations of these familiar words?)

Another number of the Flore des Serres has arrived, so that M. v. Houtte is rapidly making up his lee-way. The number for September, 1857, contains original colored figures of the beautiful Begonia Rex, Veronica Syriaca (a very clever figure), Gesnera cinnabarina, and Iochroma'coccineum, a Mexican greenhouse shrub, with long scarlet tubular flowers.