"S. T. W.," Forest Grove, Oregon, writes: " I send by this mail a box containing a daisy which you will see has assumed a somewhat singular form; viz. A number of small daisies around the central. One or two of my bunches show this tendency. One flower had 18 smaller ones on stems from ½ to 2 inches long. Is it common, and would it be worth while to perpetuate it by propagation ? There has been no seed formed as yet, but may be. It is a seedling with the following history. Some years ago D. M. Ferry sent to the Warm Spring Indian Agency a box of seeds. They were sent to me by the clerk. For several years I had planted them in boxes without getting a plant. Last year I mixed them in with a lot of old seeds I had on hand and sowed them with a hand-drill for a wild garden. This spring I found them and transplanted them on the east side of the house, where they are in rich ground and shaded most of the day".

[The peculiarity is not uncommon, and is known as the " Hen and Chicken " daisy. When a plant once takes on this form it can be perpetuated by offsets, and probably by seeds. The law that in. duces these changes in plants has never been discovered. People have been satisfied to call them sports, monstrosities, freaks, and so forth; but these names explain nothing. - Ed. G. M].