As stated in our last, the extraordinary circulation the Gardeners' Monthly has achieved in the past, has been almost wholly due to the good will of its friends, who love to hunt up one or two subscribers to send with their own subscriptions. Lovers of gardening are so scattered that ordinary advertising will not reach them. The publisher hands us the enclosed letter from a Canadian subscriber, for which he begs to return his sincere thanks:

"' Gardening is all a labor of love,' as you put it in your very appropriate address to the florists, reported in the last number. I should have very much liked to have been there personally. I am not acquainted with you, yet we all seem to be of one family - the Monthly as a kind of binding influence. There are high and low degrees in the family; I am willing to take the lowest place, yet, all men after our own heart. The family extends a long way, but there seems to be a love for each other. I have had several numbers of other papers sent to me as samples to subscribe to, but I find none to come up to my own good old Monthly. I am an Englishman; it is said they like anything old or ancient. Well, 1 have known the Monthly now for some sixteen years and I have no evil report to give of it. As the years pass it becomes to me more valued, because it has done me good. I will call it my friend. I will try and do my best towards getting some new subscribers. J. B".