A St. Louis correspondent says : " I do not think there is under culture the true laurel leaved oak, L. imbricaria I suppose. This oak grows quite abundantly here in certain soils, or rather situations, and with its glossy entire leaves and symmetrical growth is, I think, by no means destitute of beauty. I have a lot of seedlings, both one and two years, of Yucca flaccida, which I regard as a very valuable yucca, in that it blooms much younger and much more freely than Y. filamentosa, as I have noticed that the latter requires several years after division and removal before they will bloom, while the former will bloom the second year. At all events, they will throw up ten stalks of bloom to the other's one."

"C. E. M.," Philadelphia, writes : "Replying to your St. Louis correspondent, who in the June number of the Monthly says he does not think the true laurel oak, Quercus imbricaria, is under cultivation, I would say that it has been pretty widely disseminated hereabouts. Thousands of trees of it are raised and sold by Philadelphia nurserymen annually, finding their way to parks and public grounds to a great extent. There are a few nice specimens in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and also in some private grounds. I can endorse what is said of its beauty. Its leaves are unlike any other oak, North or South, and it is a rapid and symmetrical grower."