The Therapeutic Gazette, does not seem to admire Dr. Anders' suggestions that plants in dwelling rooms may often be productive of good sanitary results. It has more faith in calomel and jalap, or sulphur and molasses, than a lot of nice flowers. It therefore makes a thrust at Dr. Anders thusly:

"Then there is the question of the diseases of plants, house plants being peculiarly liable to disease. That a very innocent disease of a plant may be a cause of a very serious disease in another plant is also known. Then there is the question of the sanitary condition of plant earth, the questionable soil in which they are potted, the more questionable but indispensable fertilizers, and the still more questionable fermentation and unseen growth in the damp and often sour soil. All these things and more are worthy of consideration before we rush wildly to the florist's rather than to the neighboring pharmacy when sickness breaks out in our families. Were the rosy view of the author to be applied, we should soon be prescribing carnation pinks and rhododendrons as freely as we now do pills, and the florist on the corner would grow in wisdom and pecuniary stature, while the patient apothecary would dwindle; polypharmacy would have its analogue in the polyflorist, who would order his flowers by the bouquet, and the worse the case the more the floral variety. The whole scheme of course needs practical development, but there is no doubt that the developer would appear, if he has not already.

And where, then, would homeopathy be, and its sugar and its dilutions? The floral physician called to an urgent case, say of pulmonary hemorrhage, writes hastily and illegibly for ten monkey-flowers and a magnolia, with six lively pine-trees. The servant hastens to the florist, the florist's boy hastens back with a push cart and in a trice the plants are deposited by the bedside of the sufferer. She smiles feebly. The potent influence of properly-selected plant-life, assisted by the active remedial power of scientifically-applied plant perfume, does its work. She is saved! No nauseous doses, but " nature's own remedy," as the specific advertisements put it. How simple and touching, then, the position of the floral physician while the grateful family surround him and present him with the magnolia !"