In the Gardeners' Monthly for December some one mentions the case of an apple tree bearing forty-three bushels of apples in one year, and asks for record of larger yield.

I would call to your notice a tree in this town belonging to Mr. Delos Hotchkiss, which is believed to be the largest apple tree in New England. In 1880 when I measured it it had eight large branches, each of them as large as an ordinary full-grown apple tree. The spread of these branches is six rods; five of them in one year have borne eighty-five bushels of fruit, since Mr. Hotchkiss owned the place; and his predecessor had over one hundred bushels in one year from the same five branches, which had a habit of bearing one year and the other three the next.

Cheshire, Conn.

[Our correspondent has our best thanks for the information. If we are not mistaken in the identity of Mr. Hotchkiss, he is a descendant of a warm friend of the unfortunate Louis of France, who dared to accompany the king to the guillotine. His last gift on earth was to this friend - his watch, which is still treasured as one of the richest possessions of the family. It is a remarkable piece of mechanism; a small figure with a hammer in his hand strikes the hour on a little bell, when it is desirable to know the hour in the dark. It is an extremely ingenious contrivance for a watch. Two such treasures in members of one family; the one a natural wonder as in this apple tree, the other of art as in this watch, is a fact of rare occurrence. - Ed. G. M.]