Last season I had rather a singular experience in trying to raise a few peas for family use. On the night of the 29th of May we had a very severe frost, so much so indeed, that the ground was frozen to the depth of 2 or 3 inches. I had planted Henderson's First of All, Laxton's Alpha, Champion of England and American Wonder. The first three had been bushed and were about 18 inches high when the frost killed the buds that had begun to make quite a good show for fruit. The American Wonder were in the same condition, the vines remained green, (except here and there a leaf could be seen that had turned yellow,) but looked as if their growth had been stunted and remained so for several days. I watched them closely during this time to see what the effect of the frost would be, was about getting disgusted with them and was going to pull them all up and throw them away; but while examining them one day, I found that the American Wonder was sprouting at the roots, and in a few days I noticed that the others had begun to grow again. The new branches on the American Wonder blossomed and I had about one quarter as many peas as there should have been.

The First of All and Alphas gave me more than half a crop, and Champions nearly a full crop, not having been so much injured by the frost as the others; but oh, didn't they mildew though. I said they bore nearly a full crop; well, so they did, but one-third of them could not be used.

I had also turned out some corn which I had raised in pots in my hot-bed. I covered this corn with flower pots, and when I uncovered it I found that nearly half of it was completely killed by the frost; on examination I found that where the flower pots had not touched the ground all the way around, the corn was not frozen. This was the case with tomato plants, squashes and beans, that had been covered in the same way. Can this be accounted for by there being a free circulation of air inside the flower pots, being at the same time protected from the frost ? Nature gives us some queer things to think about sometimes, and if we profit by them we may be able to protect ourselves and our plants also, from a great many ills which might otherwise befall us.

I also had some very fine cauliflower and cabbage plants set out, and were growing nicely; the frost killed the cauliflower but the cabbage plants were very little injured. Beets, onions, carrots, etc, were not injured. Glendale, Mass.

[This is a very interesting piece of experience, and yet is in the line of similar observations which have been reduced to an axiom, that whatever tends to injure the growing foliage, tends to reduce the vital powers of a plant. - Ed. G. M].