I. S. C, New Jersey, writes: " Inclosed I send you a twig of a tree that is on my grounds and which I do not know the name of. The tree is about fifteen years old, and is about twenty feet high. It is now covered with bloom, and has been for about a week, and will continue so for a week longer. Please give me its name, and can it be propagated by cutting?"

[The specimens are Cercis Canadensis, the American Judas tree. As shown by our correspondent's inquiry this tree is not so generally known as it deserves to be. Given room to develop, it forms a symmetrical tree and seldom fails to flower profusely every spring. Cercis Japonica, the Japan Judas, has richer colored flowers, and is a great acquisition. The name Judas tree is a corruption of the French Arbre de Fudee - Tree of Judea - Cercis Siliquastrum - and, after corrupting the name, the English supposed it to be the "tree whereon Judas did verily hang himself." - Ed. G. M.J