James Truitt asks some questions to which we reply: -

1st. By "Wich Willow," J. T. probably means Willow Twig apple, a full description of which he will find on page 204 of Downing's Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, Revised Ed.

2d. "Waldeaur." We never heard of the fruit. It is not mentioned in Downing: we have, not found a nurseryman who ever heard of it.

3d. "Empress " plum he purchased from an agent of " Frost & Co." There is no such plum that we have seen mentioned in Frost & Co.'s catalogue; nor in Hooker &. Co.'s; nor in Ell-wanger & Barry's; nor in Downing's Fruits.

4th. "Ambrosia" Apricot and "Early French" Apricot J. T. says he purchased'from an agent of Moulson's Nurseries: he had better inquire of Moulson as to the " origin, quality and time of ripening," for although named in his catalogue, he gives no description, and even the names are not mentioned in the catalogues of our other best nurserymen; nor in Downing; nor in Thomas' Fruit Culture.

There are always some persons who are wanting to buy some sort of tree or vine that nobody else possesses or ever heard of. Such persons will always find plenty of self-styled tree agents who are willing to gratify the whim, and to sell to them the moat singularly named trees and plants. We are sure that the nurserymen, whom these agents say are their employers, do not know of any such sales, and they would not countenance any such imposition.

The reputation of the trade suffers very much by the swindles of self-constituted tree-agents; and the more reliable the nurserymen, the more apt these fellows are to pretend to be their agents. Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Messrs. Frost & Co., and other leading firms are compelled to use the greatest precautions to guard the public from imposition. A fellow in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., this spring sold large quantities of grape-vines by pretending to be the agent of Bissell & Salter of Rochester, and using their grape catalogue. The fact was that he never bought a single vine from them, and they never sent him or any other agent to St Lawrence or any other county. Now are these gentlemen to blame if those who have bought that itinerant's vines find that they have been swindled? We repeat it: buyers cannot be too careful that their purchases come from reliable nurserymen and through reliable hands.

There is not a more honorable or useful occupation than that of disseminating throughout the whole country the valuable plants and fruits which have originated in any one section, and it is none the less a noble trade because rouges pretend to be regularly employed when they are only damaging good nurserymen and swindling the public.

Answers To Correspondents #1

Frank Snow, Fredonia, The seeds of the "new lawn grass" have been started by one or two in this country, but must be procured, as yet, from London. See our last number.