"Vixen," Baltimore, seems mad, and wants to know : " Can any one tell me whether in any single case, no matter how desperate, one solitary pleasure was ever derived from Soulard crab? The man that started it ought, in my estimation, be convicted of treason; and the old law that required a traitor to be hung, drawn, and quartered, should be revived especially in view of his speedy trial and conviction. If he or any other chap can show that one earthly benefit was ever derived by any one planting it, I will take back my verdict, that it is an enormous outrage on good nature ever to have sent out such a thing, - and is it not time to boycott those nurserymen who keep such disreputable stuff in their catalogues. It is all very well to say they did not send it out, and, as long as there is a demand they must keep up with the times, and so on ad nauseam, as we have had dosed down us a thousand times. The keeping for those who will have it, is a different thing from advertising and pushing it by catalogue.

It is a scandalous outrage, that after I have had this tree growing for years in a limited piece of ground, hoping for something at least pretty if not good, I should have the additional loss of chopping it down and making a bon-fire. I could tear out the seller's eyes, I could, though I am not regarded usually as a vixen".