Richardia Hastata

"C." asks: "Can you inform me of what country the yellow Calla Richardia hastata is a native of, and when and by whom introduced?" [South Africa. - Ed. G. M.]

A Striped Agrippina Rose

Walter Coles, Claymont, Del., says: "I have sent you by this morning's mail a striped rose. It came from an Agrippina bush, but all one side seems to have this striped character, same as the one sent you.

'Can you kindly tell me if it is anything rare or -worth taking care of?"

[Very double and very sweet scented. Ameri-can Banner we believe to resemble it, but we have none at hand for comparison. If different from this it will be very desirable. - Ed. G. M.]

Streptosolen Jemesoni

This pretty plant was discovered by Hartweg in Ecuador, and was first called Browallia, by Bentham. It has orange-red flowers and ought to be as popular as the well-known blue Browallia. It was introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch.

Stawberries In England

There was a time when huge strawberry gardens were peculiar to America; but England is now following closely. Mr. Winston, in the county of Kent, not far from London, has three hundred acres in strawberries.

New Strawberries

Mr. Hovey says: "I think I state the truth when I say that a batch of seedlings saved from the best varieties, will produce full as fine a lot of strawberries as nine-tenths of those named and offered for sale as varieties superior to all others."

A Perfect Strawberry

Many points, not often thought of, go to make up the perfect berry. At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W. H. Hills, of Plaistow, N. H., spoke of an extraordinary crop of Miner's Prolific, but the fruit ripened on one side, so that it was difficult to get the pickers to select only that which was ripe. A fruit that will ripen uniformly all through at once, has a great advantage over such a one as Mr. Hills referred to.

Layering Boxes

As the season for preparing strawberry runners for "pot" plants is now approaching, it may be in order to note the great advantage the cheap chip baskets have over ordinary flower pots. Advances in horticulture are often the greatest in small things - and we really think this invention of Mr. Ryder deserves a rich reward.

Profits Of Vegetable Culture In Texas

Mr. H. Tone said at the North Texas Horticultural Society, that two years ago no member of that society would have believed that $250 per acre could be realized from so insignificant an article as wax beans, and yet it has been done by half a dozen of their members. To have told then that $500 could be realized from an acre of cabbage would have subjected one to a charge of lunacy, and yet that figure has been reached and surpassed the present year.