"Subscriber" says: "You suggest, in the December number, that I describe the treatment my lemon tree has received. The tree is in a box, the soil rather porous, perhaps too much so, as the water runs out very soon after I water it. I put a good many bones in with the soil thinking it would be good for it. It seems to make good foliage. I keep it in the cellar in winter and water it once a week. It stands in summer about four feet from a brick wall and gets the morning sun. Perhaps the reflected heat from the wall does not help it?"

[ From this it will appear that the reason why the plant does not flower is that it is in a vigorously growing condition. But this is a good fault. Keep it in the box without repotting, or adding more nutritive material, and as soon as it has exhausted itself a little it will, no doubt, flower and fruit profusely. It is much better to have a tree temporarily barren from a healthy cause like this, than to have one suffering from disease. - Ed. G. M.]