The Chico (Cali-fornia) Enterprise says that "there has been a man around Chico for several days past selling, or endeavoring to sell, cuttings of a peculiar tree. It bears every month in the year, so he says, and has a purple blossom, resembling a pansy. The fruit resembles a lemon in size and shape, but is pink in color. In taste it has the qualities of both an orange and a watermelon. This wonderful tree comes in different sizes, worth four and six bits each, but we are told that there are few purchasers." We suppose it must be true that such a fellow has been around Chico, but the last part of the last sentence discredits it. " Few purchasers ! " Why, here in the East the bigger the fraud the heavier the sales. But it may be that the Chico people read the horticultural journals. There are certainly some subscribers to the Gardeners' Monthly there, and we found the Pacific Rural Press in almost every man's house. This probably accounts for the failure of the epidemic to buy the wonderful novelty, which so often prevails.