A few days ago I had a special request to go and call upon two lady friends of mine who reside a short distance off. Their principal object was to show me a very neat and handsome tuft of horse chestnuts growing in a shallow dish, and placed on the top of a small vase in the window. On the first glance over them they presented by their spreading palmated foliage the appearance of some new introduction of this class of plants; the leaves were of a dark healthy green, most of them consisting of five leaflets, on stems of 7 to 8 inches high, with about the same number of plants. The specimen when viewed as a whole was quite unique, and worthy of imitation. The method of management is so simple and easily performed that it brings it within the reach of every one, and adds to it a greater interest. The plan is, first to procure a shallow galvanized dish, such as are sold in the shops at 1d. or 1 1/2d. each, or a large saucer, into which place seven or eight of the nuts. Cover them with moss, and moisten the whole occasionally with water; when showing signs of vegetation give an increased supply. When they attain the season's growth, such as when I saw them, the dish under the moss was a mass of strong, healthy roots.

The progress of early growth is similar to that of hyacinths in glasses; and, although no flowers are produced, they are much more effective as a window plant. - 7. Webster, Gordon Castle, in Gardeners' Chronicle.