Sietzia Brasiliensis - this belongs to the ges-neriaceous class of plants, and is a very curious new plant with blue flowers beautifully spotted. A very attractive trailing plant, lovely for basket, with round pea-green leaves elegantly striped with white, is Fittonia argyroneura.

I am greatly pleased with a new Zonale geranium, named Apple Blossom. There has long been a very profuse blooming pelargonium with that name, but this is a veritable Zonale, imported from England about three years ago, but as yet little known. Although mine is a wee plant, it has been bearing for three weeks its second truss of flowers, which are white suffused with rosy pink, and, at a short distance, resemble the blossoms for which it is very appropriately named. The pips are so large on the small plant, I think that on one well grown they must be of unusual size. Other choice novelties I will defer to a future article.