"An old and zealous correspondent (R. T. C.)," says the Gardeners' Chronicle,"has left at our office two most interesting seedlings, the produce of one plant (a florist's Piootee), and, it is believed, of one seed pod, fertilized by either a dark Sweet William, the ordinary Indian Pink, or one of Vilmorin's Garden Dianths of the Indian Pink race. The experiment which led to so curious a result, will have indeed to be repeated next season, in order to asoertain whether one seed pod produced both forms, and what was the male parent. But we have here the important datum, that Picotees and Carnations (for R. T. C. has Beedlings from both) will breed freely with certain other Dianths. What a wide field for improvement is thus opened! Imagine Sweet Williams with enlarged flowers and the delicate markings of the florist's Carnation, the same in the quasi-annual Indian Pink, and our own native Mountain Pink, from which some beautiful fairy Carnations might possibly spring. In these oases, R. T. C. suggests that the Carnation should be the pollen parent, and though many - probably all - of the first cross would be selfs,and partake only of the dark or normal color of the Carnation, striped flowers would doubtless soon appear.

Of the two young plants now in our possession, one has quite the appearance of a common garden Pink, and the other is very like a Sweet William; yet they are both said to be out of the same seed pod, and that of a Piootee. The last at least is a true mule".