In my correspondence relating to the introduction in the South of the manufacture of pomades from odor-bearing flowers, I learned of the value of Hibiscus Abelmoschus Muscheutos [? - Ed.] from Mr. Ungerer (Colgate & Co., N. Y.), and am thoroughly convinced that it is a valuable acquisition to sections where the garden okra will thrive. Ambrette is presumed to be hardy from Virginia, southward, but Mr. Ungerer claims to have reared, from seed sown in May, fine vigorous plants in New Jersey. It is known as musk plant, from the musky odor exhaling from the seed, and is used both by the manufacturers of perfumes as a substitute for musk, and by tobacconists to flavor the finer grades of tobacco. The supply is small and the demand is yearly growing larger. The prices paid fully warrant people in experimenting to ascertain the localities in which it will succeed. Mr Ungerer is inclined to think that it requires much summer heat to develop in the seed the required strength of musky odor. The more heat the stronger the odor. He makes also the alluring statement that he thinks the successful producer will find in it fully as large net profits as are to be had in the cultivation of either sugar or tobacco.

The seed sells easily for from 50 cents to $1.25 per pound, according to the crop. - Mrs. J. S. R. Thomson, S. C.

The Poisonous (?) Primula Obconlca had a good start in this country two years ago, the trade doing their best to make it popular. But it was of no use, our climate in summer being too hot for it. We could not get plants that would compare at all favorably with those grown in Europe. (Of course we enter failure up to the climate account.) And if we had been fortunate enough to have excelled the Erfurt gardeners, the result would have been the same. A flower to be popular with us must be as large as a carnation, at least; as sweet as a rose, as brilliant as nature's pigments will make it, and withal, it must be susceptible of rapid propagation, something on the colens order, which some of our leading florists can get in good shape for the auction room in three weeks from the taking off of the cuttings. We have no use for the plant that moves slow. The delicate little forms, neutral tints, the little forget-me-not or the "wee-tipped daisy," must give way to the chrysanthemum with flowers eight inches in diameter, or the rose of tea-saucer dimensions. The P. obconica does not belong to the show class ; it must go, or rather it must not come. Surely not now, as it is said to engender a skin disease that would make the eczema a luxury in comparison.

We regret the fate of this lovely plant, as we do the lack of taste for very many beautiful creations, simply because they are small and unassuming. - C. L. A.