The Texas Blue Grass

This is Poa arach-nifera, and is very highly spoken of as a good grass for the South.

A Fine Hermosa Rose

In a postscript - always the best part of a lady's letter - we read:

" New roses you say - give me the old roses a while longer yet ! I have a Hermosa 6 feet high and 3 feet through. I dare not try to count the flowers, but I can safely say there are hundreds of them." We do not care particularly to have our friend beaten; but if any one has a finer, fair play will demand that we give the figures a place in our columns.

Styrax Obessa

A correspondent complains that in ordering this plant from Europe, he received the same thing that a year ago he got from there as Pterostyrax hispida, and he is angry at such a fraud. But we believe it is understood that the names are botanical synonyms which the nurseryman could not help.

Beautiful Carnations

Mr. W. J. Chinnick, Trenton, N. J., sends us a box of Seedling Carnations of the old fashioned, summer blooming strain. These are very good - some of them equal to what they were in the olden times, when the carnation was a choice florists' flower, and named kinds as common as Dahlias are now. The sight of these beautiful seedling carnations makes one wish that the old florist love for these charming flowers, which bred them up to accepted standards of beauty, could be resurrected.

The Puritan Rose

This pretty seedling of Bennett, for which Evans, of Philadelphia, gave for the whole stock $2,000, is growing in favor with florists.

The entire stock of this beautiful rose has been purchased by Mr. A. B. Elliott, of Pittsburg, Pa. It is likely to be appreciated by the general lover of roses as well as by the cut flower grower - a point which cannot be said of many new roses of recent introduction, which have only a florist's value in them.

Combination Plants

A correspondent tells us that if there is any prettier combination to be made between climbing plants than the Chinese Wistaria and the Akebia, as growing over the house of Captain Landis at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, she would like to know. It is represented as a beautiful sight to see.

Iron-Stemmed Tree Carnations

An effort has been made in France to produce winter flowering Carnations that should retain their flowers erect on their stalks. This has been successfully accomplished, and "remontants" with "Tige de Fer" are now becoming the popular carnations there.