This is our bearing year for peaches. There will be an abundance of seedling peaches in the northern part of this State this year, and, I believe, through the whole State. They do not bear oftener than once in three or four yearsf and, with me, seedlings have been much hardier than any cultivated variety that I have tried. Winter before last; I presume, one-third of all the peach trees in Northern Illinois were killed. Mine were more than one-third killed in all situations except a row of about fifty trees planted on the west side of a tight board fence six feet high, where none of them were killed, and I think this is a fact worthy of note in a country where the peach tree is so liable to winter-kill. Apples grow well all over the prairie country, and pears promise well in this vicinity. Your fruit-men who have sent their tens of thousands of barrels of apples and pears yearly to sell here must look elsewhere for a market soon, as young orchards are coming into bearing all over the country, and each year our nurserymen are increasing their sales greatly.

I can get no pears from the Ducheeee d'Angouleme; they blossom early and very full, but seldom set any pears; and when they have set, the wind blows them off before they get ripe.

Do you know anything about a very large peach originated in Poughkeepeie called the Pineapple Cling. If it is so large and fine as I have heard it recommended, I should want to get it (1).

I want some good blackberries to cultivate. Our native fruit is not very good. Do you know where I can get the best variety; and do you know anything about Mr. Lawton's variety of New Rochelle, which was noticed in the Horticulturist ! (2). John Gage. - Waukegan, Ill.

(1.) A synonym of the Lemon Cling - a very good variety. (2.) It is said to be a fine variety.

I received some Deodar Cedars this spring and planted them just as they came from the nursery, and I now find that some of them have three or four leaders or stems all in a clump, of about equal strength, while others have only two. Should I cut them all down to a single stem or not? They look very handsome in their present condition, being only two or three feet high; but what their appearance might be when they arrive at considerable size I cannot tell, as I have only seen small plants. A. J. N. - Montgomery, Ala.

Select the strongest and best placed shoot for a leader, and encourage it by tying up and I am growing a few native grapes - training them with two horizontal shoots at the bottom of the trellis, and thence perpendicular shoots at intervals, but am at a loss to know whether or not I would be correct in pinching off the shoots immediately on their reaching the top of the trellis (about five feet high). I am advised by some to allow the shoots intended for next year's fruiting to grow as far as they can, and only to cut at the annual pruning, and by others as above. Now, Mr. Editor, would you have the goodness to tell me which is correct A Subscriber. Hamilton, Canada West.

Let the leading canes grow as far as they will, stopping them only late in the season to ripen the wood, when there will be no danger of causing the buds for next year's bearing to push. Pinoh all the side shoots at the second leaf, and the fruit branches at the second joint above the the fruit.

I have a plant of the Tecoma grandiflora, but unfortunately it seems rather tender, having been winter-killed for two or three years. It has now blossomed, and I am desirous of raising some seedlings in order that they may be hardier than the original. In what way shall I proceed with the seeds, if any come to maturity ! D. L. J. - Birmingham, New Haven Co., Conn.

Keep the seeds till spring, in the pods; then sow in dry, fine soil, just as yon would seeds of the Catalpa. Cover lightly. Young plants need protection in winter, for a year or two, until the wood becomes firm. Grafting on the radicans is said to make the grandtflora more hardy. "We have not tried it.

"Will you, or some of your numerous correspondents, be so kind as to inform a subscriber to the Horticulturist what quantity of grapes it will take to make ten gallons of wine, and also the best recipe for making wine ? The grapes are grown under glass, and are the Catawba and Isabella. Maurice Landers. - Chicopee, Mass.

We must recommend yon Buchanan's Treatise on the Culture of the Grape and Wine-Making, which will furnish all the information yon want.

Will you inform me if bones boiled soft, such as can be had at glue factories, is valuable manure for young pear trees from two to five years old ! How should it be applied, and how much to each tree ? A Subscriber.

Will some one answer who has used bones in this way ?