Few who have not seen this elegant little flower, the blue Forget-me-not forced, can have an idea of what a pretty pot-plant it makes for the conservatory, drawing-room, or dinner-table. It is also a most useful flower for cutting for bouquets or button-holes. Those who admire this simple plant - and who does not? - need not think, because they have no glass, that they cannot force it, - the only difference between doing so in a room and the greenhouse being, that in the room it will take just double the length of time to come into flower it would in the greenhouse, which is about six weeks from the time it is potted and brought into heat. So according to where you are going to grow your plants you must make allowance as to the time they will require to come into bloom. Take some nice tufts - I prefer those that have sprung up from the seed dropped the season before - and pot them in 5-inch pots in a nice mixture of loam, sand, rotten turf, and a little peat if you have it. Give them plenty of water and air whenever the weather will permit. Those who want to grow this plant for cutting, can plant as many tufts in each pot, and use any size they like; or it will grow as well in boxes as in pots.

Indeed it is far from particular; but its pretty flowers and appearance, as well as the length of time it will remain in bloom, will quite repay those who may take the trouble of forcing it. A succession of flowers can be obtained by keeping the first flower-buds picked back. A. H.

Upper Norwood.