THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 57 
failed to come up but the other is doing better than lasc year. The 
otherplantsaregrouped around within a radius of eighteen inches. 
Some of the stems must be fully eight feet long and they make a 
very pretty show as they clamber o\^er a large scraggy branch. 
The foliage shows no signs of deterioration while the flower 
clusters are considerably larger than those of the preceding sea- 
son. From this" experience of the past two years, I am inclined 
to think that plants will not only grow, but will improve under 
cultivation. If they multiply as fast next year the trouble will be 
to keep them from growing rather than to get them to grow.— 
Eunice D. Smith, Barre, Vt. [If our correspondent has not yet 
observed it, she will be interested in the plant's methods of secur- 
ing cross-pollenation~one of the most ingenious methods to be 
found among our common plants. It is also to be noted that not- 
withstanding this machinery for cross-pollenation, ground-nut 
seeds are among the rarities. The reason for this is supposed to 
be that the plant being able to spread so rapidly underground finds 
little use for seed.— Ed.] 
