Dr. Hoskins Pear

Dr. Hoskins Pear has been called a seedling of Flemish Beauty because it resembles that sort. But its parentage is not known. It is the largest of our seedlings, and by a careless observer would be called a Flemish Beauty, but it is broader at the stem and has more of a neck. It is about as large as Flemish Beauty, ripens with it and differs from it in flavor, mainly in being a little inferior, but is not subject to that sort of fungus that is so destructive to the fruit of the Flemish Beauty.

All the above seedlings came into bearing about twenty-five years ago.

Drosera Cistiflora

It is also to Miss North that we are indebted for the introduction of this, the finest of all droseras. The flower is cistus-like, two inches across, with the five concave petals of a bright scarlet. The leaves are two inches long, narrow, and covered with reddish, glandular hairs. The habit is nearest that of D. Capensis. As it is quite a beautiful plant and apparently not difficult to grow, it is likely to make a useful addition to the occupants of the greenhouse. It flowered for the first time last year at Kew. It is a native of the Cape.

The Dwarf Orange

What is known in the trade as the Otaheite orange is a charming plant for pot culture in the conservatory or window-garden. In a two-inch pot, it will flower most profusely and ripen its fruit. Orange blossoms are ever desirable, and when from twenty to thirty can be had on a plant not more than six inches high, and growing in a two-inch pot, there is no reason why they should not be found in every window.

Earliest Tomato And Pea

Aside from any purely business motives, can any subscriber tell us which of the many and deservedly popular varieties of tomatoes is without a doubt the earliest in higher latitudes ? Among tomatoes and peas it is bewildering to choose where each catalogue claims "first early," and ground room forbids oftentimes a trial of the rival claimants. One week with us makes a difference of a half in profit, one way or other, in either of the above vegetables. - S. B. D.

Early Germination Of The Seed Of Rosa Laxa

Of the seeds gathered during the fall of 1889 at the Froebel School of Forestry, in Zurich, fully two-thirds have been successfully started. They were not prepared in any way before planting, but were gathered early, cleaned, and immediately sown in the open ground. - Rosen Zeitung.

Mme. Barthelemy Levet is a little known but valuable variety of the Dijon teas, It is a free and beautiful rose, powerfully scented, an abundant bloomer, and very vigorous. The flowers are of medium size, globular, and of a pale canary color. It promises to be very satisfactory upon the wall, and I have seen it doing well upon a fence. - A. H., in The Garden.

The East Cannot Compete With The West

Why ? Because of fertilizers and the cost. I was astonished to learn from the United States Agricultural report that New Jersey grows more corn to the acre than Illinois. The Swedes and Germans who are settling on the deserted farms of New England will make farming pay where it did in days of yore. They may not bring much "book-learning," but they will bring an experimental knowledge that will reap dollars to put in the bank. - S. B. D.