I grew and flowered this plant a dozen years ago. It is a herbaceous perennial, indigenous to the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, perfectly hardy here, and a good grower and profuse and continuous bloomer, and it takes kindly to cultivation in our gardens. Like the perennial gypso-philas, fraxinella and Euphorbia corollata, when once established it lives forever. It bore seeds with me in limited quantity, but these grew readily. Its flowers are dull scarlet, but not showy or large. Altogether it is a brighter and better plant than the now very common Malvastrum Munroanum, its near relative.

Your note on "Good old Cosmos," page 16, reminds me that in this plant we have one of the most desirable garden plants for fall use that we grow. But there is something very curious about its time of blooming. I find that it matters very little whether I sow the seed in March or July, or whether the plants are large or small; they all begin to bloom about the end of September. I get a nice crop of flowers from them in June, by sowing in March or April, growing on the seedlings in pots and planting them out in May. The buds they "set" when in the pots are advanced into blossoms, but then there is a halt, and rank growth sets in, and we get no more flowers till the cool nights of fall come upon us, when we reap a gorgeous crop. By confining the plants in pots we can have blossoms at most any time. It is only fitted for outdoor cultivation in mild localities where early fall frosts do not occur, but as an indoor plant it is lovely.

Wm. Falconer.

Queens Co., N. Y.