Wherever flowers are grown during the winter season, either for the embellishment of the greenhouse, the dinner-table or the parlor, a few of the best of these should receive a place, their drooping fuchsia-like flowers claiming admiration, whether seen in the flower vase or drooping gracefully from the parent stem. To see them at their best they should be grown in a temperature of about 6o°. Cuttings struck about the end of May, if well cared for, form handsome little plants in 5-inch pots by the end of the season, which I think are always preferable to the "lanky" specimens so often seen.

The following are some of the best which we have found amenable to culture in small pots. Among the scarlets, Fuchsi-oides has no equal when well grown, but is a shy bloomer unless treated to plenty of heat. Is at its best about the holidays. The white variety of this is very useful in large pots to cut from, but is too gross a grower for small pots. Saun-dersonii is about the first to bloom in the scarlet section, beginning in October and continuing without intermission all winter if kept growing. This is one of the very best for growing in small pots. Digswelliana is very much like the preceding, but more round in the foliage, and opens its flowers well. Metallica and M. in-carnata are both beautiful in flower and foliage, the latter showing up panicles of rich rose-colored flowers in beautiful contrast to the dark foliage flowering in December. The rich metallic leaves of the former are in themselves useful in a cut state, edgings to flower vases. This is a spring flowering variety with rose-colored flowers covered over with miniature glittering hairs, giving it a beautiful rich appearance. Parviflora and Weltoniensis may be termed perpetual bloomers. The former is of compact growth with small foliage and always covered over with pure white flowers.

The latter is a light pink and one of the very best. Has a very pretty effect seen under gas light, the reddish green leaves being almost transparent, with red leafstalks. Schmidtii, a compact variety with pretty metallic foliage and white flowers, is very desirable. Rubra has dark green leaves with immense clusters of scarlet rose colored flowers, and is one of the best winter-flowering Begonias grown. Manicata and Sanguinea are sometimes classed in the ornamental leaved section, but they are also beautiful flowering subjects, bearing in the spring numerous panicles of pinkish white flowers on long erect stems. As a foliage plant the latter is beautiful, almost completely hiding the pot in which it is grown and forming a complete globe of olive-green leaves with rich crimson underneath. There are several other varieties well worth growing, but not being under my care at the time of writing I have only noted such as have given me satisfaction during the present season. South Virginia. [It will be a good illustration of this excellent article to give a cut of the new Double Begonias which are now attracting so much attention in Europe. - Ed. G. M].

New Double Begonias.