Solanum Jasminoldes, Var. Grandiflorum

Solanum Jasminoldes, Var. Grandiflorum, is just what its name implies, a grand flowering plant; in the much desired class of trellis plants it has no rival, growing freely, and producing immense panicles of pure white flowers, with a slight tinge of purple on the bud and on the back of the petals. It thrives well as a pot plant, flowering freely in winter, and can be trained into any desired shape or form. Its greatest use, however, is as a trellis plant, growing freely, its bright green foliage contrasting beautifully with its matchless trusses of white flowers.

Some Cookery Crinkles

Various winter vegetables with cream or milk dressing form a very agreeable addition to the cold-weather bill-of-fare. Cabbage prepared in the following way resembles cauliflower in flavor. A small, firm head should be selected and sliced thin; boil in salted water until tender and then drain. When free from water, put it again into the sauce-pan with a pint of sweet milk and let it remain over the fire until the milk almost boils. Remove the cabbage and thicken the milk with one tablespoonful of flour; add a tablespoonful of butter and serve as sauce. Turnips sliced into a bowl, covered with milk and nicely seasoned and baked for two hours, are an acceptable innovation. Onions steamed and then covered with seasoned cream are delicious. Parsnips will be found very nice if boiled until tender in salted water, carefully drained and then covered with sweet cream.

Some Orchids At Kew

THE high prices formerly paid for chids drew attention to them, from ople knowing nothing of them and tterly, as they are becoming familiar from exhibitions and extended cultivation, they attract for their own sake. Collections worth thousands of pounds are the pride of many gentlemen in Eng land, but the finest collection in the country is that at the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, on the Thames, in the southern outskirt of London. This is the richest institution of the kind in the world, embracing 75 acres, and open gratuitously to the public every day in the week. Special pride is taken in the palms, ferns and orchids. Of the last some of the most notable are the following :

Sow-Bugs Do Not Eat Snails

In the April number (p. 251) of the Garden, L. Stevens mentions sow-bugs as a remedy for snails. His bugs must be better educated than mine. I have watched them for years and know that they eat plants. They are fond of rex begonia leaves and stems, gloxinia and gesneria bulbs, and will eat geraniums and a few other plants just above the ground where they congregate in large numbers. Even the innocent earth worm I have caught in mischief. He destroys hyacinth bulbs and will sometimes work his way under the bark in roots, but he is the -most innocent of all intruders with me. - Mrs. J. V. Taylor, Salem, Oregon.

Speckled Gage

James Tobias, son of the pioneer, many years ago got some grafted plum trees from Montreal, and a sprout from one of them bore plums that from their appearance were named Speckled Gage. The tree is small with slender twigs, is very hardy and very productive. The fruit is small, round with a slight suture, reddish purple and speckled all over with small dots. It is liable to crack when over-ripe, and then the flavor near the skin is exceedingly sweet and sugary, but near the pit, to which it clings, it becomes quite acid. This plum is more highly valued for cooking and canning than any other plum grown here.