Seeing what Mrs. Mary M------says in the September number of The American Garden, viz., that Helianthus multiflorus needs no protection, reminds me that all climates are not alike any more than all people, and if some one in Minnesota should conclude to leave this plant without a good covering during the winter they would find themselves without the little yellow sunflower the next season - I speak from experience. It needs fully six inches of some sort of covering, leaves, or litter from the stable ; for we are never sure of deep snows to protect plants, but always sure of cold weather. I find that the white day lily does much better if kept in a tub of rich soil without changing the earth for several years. I set the tub in the cellar during winter and bring it up early in spring, and in that way I get all the bloom there is in the plant before frost. If it is left in the ground the plant will live through our winters but will only begin to bloom in the fall about the time we have our first frost. - Miriam Parker, Minnesota.