The following letter is printed just as received:

"Office of National Grape and Wine Growers" Associa-tion, No. 24 Park Place, New York, April 24th, 1886.

" Editor Gardeners' Monthly :

"Dear Sir - Please make the following announcement in your paper relative to the Viticul-tural Convention to be held in Washington. The Convention of the vine-growers of the United States, call for which was issued in February last, will be held at the Agricultural Department buildings in Washington, opening on Tuesday the 18th of May next, and continuing four days. The exposition of grape products, wines, raisins, etc., will be held in an adjoining hall in the same buildings and at the same time. All exhibits from States east of the Rocky Mountains should be addressed to Mr. Chr. Vander, 909 7th street, N. W. Washington, D. C, the local member of the Committee, who has kindly consented to take charge of the exhibits until they are placed in the exhibition hall. Addresses will be delivered before the Convention by the Commissioner of Agriculture, Hon. Norman J. Colman, Prof. C. V. Riley, and some fifteen or twenty others prominently connected with viticulture in the United States. " Yours truly, "B. F. Clayton, " Chairman Committee on Organization".

[It is printed in order to show the stupidity in common things exhibited by some who run conventions. They write a letter to the Editor of a monthly magazine, on the 24th of the month, which letter reaches his table on the 28th, asking him to insert a notice in the magazine which is to be printed, folded, bound, addressed, mailed, and in the hands of subscribers hundreds of miles apart a few days later.

We should not care to comment on this stupidity if it were a rare occurrence - such rarity would make it a personal matter which has no place in our columns - but it is not only common stupidity, but the absence of the impossible notice renders the Editor "stupid and indifferent to horticultural progress " in the eyes of many whom it is our duty to enlighten as we are now doing.