WE are under obligations to many of our horticultural friends for specimens of fruit, and for which all have our thanks, though in some cases we are a little tardy in acknowledgment:

From Mr. 0. F. Brand, Faribault, Min., we have the Saxton, with specimens of several other varieties. The Saxton was past its prime. Of the other specimens, No. 1 is too sour for pigs -must be remarkably good in tree, and bearing qualities to be worth a name anywhere. Another specimen appears like Willow Twig, immature and not colored up like ours. Neither of the apples thought to be Roman Stem and Gravenstein are correct. • The former is more sweet than sour, and otherwise unlike the Roman Stem, while the latter has neither outline, color nor the flavor of the true Gravenstein. Other specimens in the collection are beyond our recognition, are evidently seedlings; with this collection Mr. Brand writes:

"I will send you a list of apples that I know, from my own personal knowledge, are hardy and valuable in this State - Tetofski, Duchess, Red Astrachan, Saxton Haas, Fameuse, Price's Sweet, Tallman Sweet, Golden Russett, Perry Russett (not prolific), Ben Davis. In the line of pears, Flemish Beauty is also a success."

From H. S. Williams, Glenwood, Iowa, several specimens: No. 1, a seedling and a most remarkable apple, shall illustrate and describe in a future number; No. 2, a large apple, flattened, one-sided and colored up much like Ben Davis; No. 3, Lahel-lia, " Long Island Greening," is unquestionably a seedling; the name must be local, a poor apple, even for a seedling, nor can we say anything more flattering of No. 4; No. 5 appears like Kaighn's Spitzenburg in every essential.

From H. A. Terry, Crescent City, Iowa, fine specimens of seedling fruits, grown upon his grounds. Mr Terry has probably given more attention to the production of new varieties of the apple, peach and plum than any other man in the State, and to which reference will be made at another time. Among his seedlings are some sixty varieties of Crab, and one large fine peach, in particular.

From D. B. Clark, Council Bluffs, a fine collection of apples of five sorts. They are all evidently seedlings, are large and of fine appearance and good. Though we might plant sparingly, if at all, of any one of these sorts, yet, if we had an orchard of such already in bearing, we should regard it a prize.

Twenty years ago, Mr. Clark settled upon the farm he now occupies. The first thing done was to plant an orchard of some three hundred trees, with belts of cotton-wood on the west, north and east; no inconsiderable portion of the trees turned out seedlings, but fortunately the trees are hardy, good bearers, and the fruit, as a general thing, of a size and quality to find ready sale in the market, at little, if anything, below the best market prices.

The apples are all fine in appearance; one is nearly a fac simile of the Swar, three and three-quarter inches in diameter, of a golden-yellow, specked with greenish-grey dots, but come to the "innards" we find it a different thing-open core, etc.