"Florists by the thousand for cutting. They are also nice for borders round grass-plots, along hedges, round shrubs, etc."—Dutch Bulb Catalogue.

We should not dare to treat a British florist like this.



CHARIVARIA.

"The English comedians are great," Mr. Douglas Fairbanks is reported to have told an interviewer. He has already accepted an invitation, we understand, to visit the Law Courts and hear Mr. Justice Darling ask, "Who is Mary Pickford?"