"Inquirer" (p. 350 of Gardeners' Monthly), probably wants information in regard to the famed Lotus, the food of the Lotophagi, which Homer says was so delicious as to make those who ate it forget their native country.

"They went, and found an hospitable race; Not prone to ill. not strange to foreign guest: They eat, they drink, and Nature gives the feast; The trees around them all their food produce. Lotus the name - divine, nectareous juice ! (Thence called Lotophagi) which whoso tastes. Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts; Nor other home, nor other care intends. But quits his house, his country, and his friends." - Odyssey, 9'; Pope's translation.

This enchanting fruit of the ancients is said to have been the product of an African species of Zizyphus - Z. Lotus, Willd. Celtis Australis has also had the credit of being the plant that yielded the fruit under consideration; hence its popular name Lote-tree. The Greek name '/uimr (lotos), included the above-named shrub, a species of melilotus, a few trees, and several aquatic plants. New York City, Nov. 18, 1884.