E. Walker, New Albany, Ind., contributes the following interesting note: "The past season I have noticed thrifty plants among our stock geraniums and verbenas in the open ground suddenly appear to become diseased, and quite a number wither and die without any visible cause. But this fall, on digging up some of the geraniums I found a white grub at the root of every sickly plant, and the stem of some almost, and of others completely cut in two about an inch and a half below the surface of the soil. I have since been informed by a former head-gardener of Floral Park, of Louisville, that geraniums never did well on those grounds, on account of this grub."