Mr. A. Blanc says : "I send you two flowers of a Marigold, both taken from one plant. You will notice that one is single and the other perfectly double. This plant produced nothing but single flowers at first, but now a number of fine double ones are appearing. This shows how seedsmen are often blamed unjustly for imposing on people, for in this case I gathered the seed myself from perfectly double flowers sent to me by Messrs. Hallock, Son & Thorpe to engrave. Perhaps the seed not having matured on the plant, may account for it".

[This is certainly very curious; the single straw color, and the double orange, on the same plant. But we do not know how far this may excuse some complaints. If we planted seeds of the double orange and half the seedlings came single straw color, we should be apt to suspect a mixture of seeds for all this experience. - Ed. G. M.J