Noting the increasing interest in perennia for the flower garden, I think it is well to call attention to the miserably small, weak plants that the nurserymen send out under the head of perennials. I have experimented with a good many kinds, purchased from various houses, and like a great many amateurs, dislike to be obliged to buy a dozen plants in order that out of the lot two or three may flower. New perennials are of slow growth and the weaklings that are sent out by most houses, little slips or seedlings forced under glass, are enough to discourage ordinary people. Good perennial roots should have one summer's growth and a rest during the following winter before anything should be expected of them.

Eugenia Myrtifolia.

If the nurserymen are desirous of working up the trade in herbaceous perennials they are spoiling their own interests by the course they take. There are one or two houses that arc exceptions to this rule; their plants are what they should be and their prices are what the plants are worth, consequently they are high, and their lists might scare buyers who have not experimented with lower priced houses. - P. F. Blodgett, Vermont.