In reply to Mr. Fall's invitation to others to communicate their experience of this vegetable, we have several communications, favorable and unfavorable, and shall endeavor to give a summary next month.

Boston, January 11,1858. Mr. J. Jay Smith: I feel moved to express to you my pleasure not only in the opinion you gave, in the December Horticulturist, of the Concord Grape as compared with the Isabella, but in the two remarks you so nicely tucked in (and so decidedly, too) in the clause on the Concord Grape, in the article on " Grapes" in the January number of the Horticulturist. I will say no more, at the present time, than to express my regret that new plants should be sent out, from time to time, so misrepresented as they are, and two of the most notable instances recently occurring not abroad, but at home. Respectfully, Solon.

The traveller among the Alps is annoyed at every celebrated scene with applications and solicitations to pay for some appliance he has never anticipated. On the Wengern Mountain, you are desired to pay five francs for an avalanche! and soon discover that a gun is loaded, to bring down the snow by its reverberating influence, and that on no other terms can you enjoy the spectacle. De Quinoy relates a similar charge made during" a tour in the lake region. The bill contained this uncommon item: -

" To an echo, first quality.............

£0

10s.

0

"To " -second quality.........

0

5

0

It seems the price of echoes varied, reasonably enough, with the amount of gunpowder consumed. Half-crown echoes might be had by those base snobs who would put up with a vile substitute for the genuine article. It is computed there has been 37,000 Americans in Europe the past season!