A correspondent of the Gardeners' Magazine, referring to the superior culture of American growers, adds:

"Before leaving the American growers, there is an interesting subject worthy of mention. They grow seedlings from home-saved seed. One enterprising firm of nurserymen offer prizes for the best results, but on condition that the winning varieties become their property, and that the flowers must be improvements upon existing forms in the various sections. The successful competitors have the right to name their productions, and as the climate is apparently suitable for the purpose, raisers of new chrysanthemums are likely to become rather numerous.

" Naming the flowers ! by no means an unimportant matter to some of us, especially those connected with the business of cataloguing. Speaking from comparatively recent experience, I would earnestly implore the fortunate American prize-winners in this class to make the nomenclature of their flowers as short and as sweet as possible. Pray let us have no more of the long-winded names such as the lively Gaul delights in. No more like Triomphe de la rue Chalets, L'ami Boucharlat aine, Madame la Marquise de Mun, Monsieur Juan Cruz de Eguileor, Secretaire General F. Astie, Souvenir de l'amiral Courbet, or even any other souvenirs of that ilk".