Astragalus Vaginatus

This is a beautiful dwarf Milk-Vetch, with a woody root-stock and short branches also woody. The leaves are long, minutely pinnate. The flowers are in large showy racemes and deep purple. They open in June and July. A very handsome rock-plant, and suitable also for the margins of borders and beds. It thrives in any good garden-soil. Propagate by division (not too minute), by cuttings, and by seed.

Aubrietia Purpurea Fol. Aurea

There is now to be seen at the Chiswick Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society a capital golden-leaved sport from this fine old winter and spring blooming plant that seems likely to be as useful in the spring garden as the golden-feather Pyrethrum is in the summer garden. It will be a very useful companion to the pretty golden-tipped Sedum acre, or Stone Crop.

Azalea Procumbens, Syn. Loiseleuria Procumbens

Azalea Procumbens, Syn. Loiseleuria Procumbens, is rather rare, but a beautiful and attractive little evergreen shrub, with terminal clusters of pink or rose-coloured flowers. It should have a moderately shady place on rockwork in sandy gritty peat.

B. M

You are quite right, but we do not intend to say more just now. Bricklayers' labourers get far better pay, and do not even require to produce a character. Indeed, the order of matters just now is, that men who require, as the foremost indispensable, a high character for morality and trustworthiness, get the very worst pay going; and conspicuous among them are, we are sorry to say, gardeners.

Beaconsfield Kidney Potato

This is a fine new variety, and was recently exhibited by Mr Turner, Slough, and received from the Royal Horticultural Society a First-Class Certificate. It has a smooth-skinned tuber of handsome shape, is said to be a medium early kind, and very prolific; and when cooked and tasted, the quality was found to be first-rate.

Bee-Keeping (Inquirer)

Your suggestions shall receive careful consideration. We have just received an interesting paper entitled "A Half-Hour on Bees," prepared for, and read by invitation at one of the meetings of, the Hanwell (Middlesex) "Penny Readings," by "A Hanwell Bee-Master." We hope to give it in our next issue.

Bright Spade

Thanks. Shall be glad to hear from you on any of the subjects you name.

Bryantlius Erectus, Syn. Menziesia Erecta

Bryantlius Erectus, Syn. Menziesia Erecta, with something mongrellike in its aspect, is a most beautiful thing, with heads or clusters of pink flowers in the way of Kalmia glauca, from which, as one parent, it is supposed to be derived, being regarded as a natural hybrid. It delights in a shady moist position on rockwork.