Passing through my garden to-day, I was struck with the beauty of several yellow flowered perennials in bloom, and it occurred to me that much of the interest of our borders, in the month of July, comes from the blooming of flowers of this color. The first to attract my attention, perhaps from the height the plant grows, for it was the tallest of the lot, was the Heliopsis lasvis. It grows fully five feet high, and its large flowers are very conspicuous. The next I met, and a good one it is, was the Chrysopsis villosa. This grows to a height of three feet, is loaded with flowers always, and blooms for a long time. A later blooming species, C. Mariana, is equally as handsome. The next I came to was the conspicuous Rud-beckia hirta, which, although common in the fields near by, I would not like to be without in my border. Following this came Lysimachia ciliata, one of the best of the genus, except perhaps, quad-rifolia. If not mistaken, all our native Lysimach-ias are yellow. Lepachys columnaris and Rud-beckia trifolia came next under notice.

The first is very conspicuous, on account of its columnar disk.

Finishing my walk, I passed some nice plants of Aquilegia chrysantha, still with a few flowers on, as it will have for some time yet. I would not like to be without these yellow flowers.