Aescuius Parviflora

This pretty species of Buckeye had not been reported as growing in Kansas until I found it in this county, where it is not uncommon. It is kept for sale in the eastern nurseries, and is worthy of general cultivation.

Eryngium Leavenworthii

A remarkable and singularly beautiful plant, growing everywhere in Southern Kansas, on limestone rocks. It deserves a place in every garden where it will grow. Its oddity, as well as its beauty, making it an object of attraction.

Centaurea Americana

At first sight one would hardly recognize in this tall plant, with its large, showy flowers, a sister of the Bachelor's Button of the garden. It is a fine plant, but rarely met with in this county.

Castillija Coccinea (Painted Cup)

This is a widely disseminated plant, though not abundant anywhere. I have seen it in two or three places only in this county. It is a unique and beautiful plant.

Euphorbia Marginata

Snow on the Mountain of the gardens is common further west, but is seldom seen in this locality. It is one of our few native plants, the beauty of whose foliage renders them objects of attraction.

Cooperia Drummondii

It is a little strange that this pretty Texas member of the amaryllis family should have moved its habitat to Southern Kansas. I found, perhaps, a dozen individuals of the species growing in one location only, in a slight depression, on high table land.

Camptosorus Rhizopliyllus (Walking Fern)

This unique and beautiful fern, if not rare, is so fastidious in its choice of a home that it is abundant in a few localities only. I found it covering a few limestone rocks in a cold, damp place where the sun never reaches, a forest being on one side, and on the other a perpendicular wall of rock fifty or sixty feet high.

Poison On Cabbages

"Reader," Berwyn, Pa., asks: "Mr. G. Geduldig, Norwich, Conn., in your April number, recommends a mixture of hellebore and water as a good solution for destroying cabbage-worms. Will Mr. Geduldig say whether there is any danger of poisoning the cabbage by the use of such preparation? Hellebore, if I am informed correctly, is poison."

[We fear it is dangerous. - Ed. G. M.]

Objectionable Names For Fruits

A correspondent suggests that names like Big Bob, Little Satan, Sweet Ducky, and Fiddle-stick, ought to be frowned down by the public, and that if the varieties so unfortunately burdened with ridiculous names should happen to be worth the trouble - which the very fact of their having such silly cognomens is much against - the American Pomologi-cal Society would be doing good service by ignoring such vulgar names, and giving proper ones to them.