During the month of September I built a carnation house 46x21 feet, and glazed it with 10x12 double-thick glass, put in the 12-inch way. The glass and putty I purchased in New York, of a firm who make quite a point to supply florists with the above materials. The glass was satisfactory, but the putty, if such it could be called, proved to be the vilest stuff any one could imagine, although it was bought for a first rate article, and said to be made from pure linseed oil. The weather being warm, the putty worked very well. My glazing was done in the very best manner, the sash bars and rafters having been given two coats of good paint. As soon as the frost began to ap pear the putty began to bulge out from under the glass, and now, January 4th, very much of it is laying on the sash bars, or having dropped off upon the plants or ground. Had I used blue clay fresh from the bank, I would have been in just as good shape as I am now. There is no adhesion to the putty. By taking it in your hand and rubbing it even slightly it has the appearance of whiting and water. Last year I built just such a house as the above, glazed it in the same way exactly, and the putty is as perfect as the day it was put on, but the putty was purchased from another firm.

I will have to submit to the unpleasant state of affairs until warm weather, and then take out all of the glass and reset them, which will be quite an expense, and all from being deceived in the quality of putty. Should not the party furnishing the putty which has been the cause of this misfortune be held responsible for the additional expense? If there are any florists about the country who have been caught in the same way, I would like to hear from them, and any one wishing to know who the parties are that sold me the putty will be informed by dropping me a line. If there was any oil used in this putty, and there did appear to have been, it must have been of such a nature that the least touch of frost decomposed it. Will some one explain how this putty is adulterated?

Hudson, N. V.

[We do not know what the law in relation to adulteration is in New York, but in many states it would be an indictable offence.

As a general rule law is expensive, and it is better to suffer in silence than to enter into it. Some day there may be associations into which one may enter, employing counsel where the good of one happens to be the good of the whole, which could take up such things. Florists should have one. - Ed. G. M].