I enclose a portion of a flowering branch of Hesperaloe yuccaefolia, which I have had to bloom every year since 1881. You may have seen it; if so it will not be new to you; but if you have not you should know it. The plant resembles the Yucca filamentosa, but with fewer and narrower leaves. The flower stalk is from five to six feet high, with seldom more than four or five short branches. It is, however, densely covered with flower buds. These grow slowly and do not expand until they are three weeks old, but as they are all colored alike in every stage of development, the effect of the plant is very striking. The plant remains in flower for fully three months, and this during our dryest weather. I consider it a valuable addition to our hardy ornamental plants. It increases slowly, however.

Yucca Treculiana bloomed here for the first time last March and April. It is the most showy of all the varieties I have tried, and the earliest to bloom. The flower stalk was four feet long, regularly branched, each branch bearing from twelve to eighteen large ivory white flowers; the latter numbered upwards of 500 upon one stalk, and remained in bloom nearly four weeks. Our native varieties, like Y. aloefolia, Y. gloriosa and Y. pen-dula, of the tree growing kinds, seldom begin to bloom before the end of June.

[The Yucca family is so remarkably well adapted to American gardening, and the results of their employment are so unique, that we are glad to get every item that will add to the general knowledge about them. - Ed. G. M.]