The Pinus Sylrestris Spiralis is the most singular variety of theSylvestrus Pine; it presents a character never shown until now among any coniferous trees. This character, to which we wish to draw the attention of landscape Horticulturists, lies in the leaves; these, instead of being more or less straightened, as they usually are in all species of Pine, are bent back upon the branches, where they form a kind of rings, or rather, spiral linos, the origin of the name spiralis given to it. This variety, as well as most others, is not the work of man, it is the result of a special growth, or as we say a sport of nature, a phrase we adopt to relieve ourselves from embarrassment when we want to explain certain phenomena. We do not wish to introduce any hypothesis into our subject, but here is the fact, and whatever may be the cause of it, let us profit by it, and if we can, as is most likely to be the case, appropriate and establish it by means of grafts, we shall have one more ornament for our landscape gardens.

The amateurs of Con-ferae will include in their collections a variety which, though the last to come, will in the end occupy the first position.

The owner of this variety is M. A. Seneclauze, a horticultural-nursery man at Bourg-Argental; the specimen he owns, and from which we take our sample, is about 18 feet high; it is vigorous and rapid in its growth, perhaps more so than any in our neighborhood. One remarkable, we might say happy fact, is, that the more vigorous the tree, the more its leaves twist around or bend back, and consequently the more beautiful it is. - Revue Horticole.