Mr. Little (May, p. 286), must use very small offsets in growing his tuberoses, and live very far north, if they will not make blooming bulbs the first season. Here the trouble is that the large offsets will bloom and have to be culled out in growing the bulbs for sale and next year's planting. Amateurs in this latitude leave their tuberoses, amaryllis, dahlias and cannas all in the open ground all winter until they get in such large clumps that they have to be taken out and divided. I saw to-day (May 14), an old clump of Amaryllis Johnsoni in a Raleigh yard, with some stalks bearing over forty flowers. In the same yard Canna Ekemanni, out all winter, is now over four feet high, and making buds. Dahlias are also nearly as tall. My madeira vines have reached the top of the piazza. They were three feet high last of February, but the March freeze cut them down, and destroyed the ■ bloom of an immense Banksia rose near by. I have a Marechal Neil rose on my front piazza, well worth noting; it has now at a moderate estimate 1,000 flowers on it. It measures around the main stem 12 inches, and has four main branches measuring 6 - 4½ - 4 - 3½ inches in circumference.

It covers over 25 feet of the length of the piazza, and is trained on wires from the eaves to the top of the second story windows. It is on its own roots. Just now Raleigh riots in tea roses, and to one accustomed to the little plants, often frozen to the ground in Maryland, the size even of the dwarf ones is immense. I daily pass a bush of Sunset, in a front yard, which is about eight feet high and ten feet through the head. Few hybrid perpetuals are planted here. Raleigh people want roses all the time - and the climate is so balmy that they get them. - W. F. Massey, N. C, Experiment Station.