Allow me to ask a faror, and answer me under the bead of correspondence. I consider myself a novice In the nursery business, and labor under great disadvantages in budding Peaohes. I generally sutler a loss or one-half of my newly-budded Peaches in the spring; and Plums also. I hare exhausted all my ingenuity, and made no improvements; the buds will appear to be all doing well, pushing out until the leaf makes its appearance, and then great numberj come to a dead stand; after some warm, dry days, they become loose and drop off, the same as winter-killed blossom-buds do. I have Downing's Fruit and Fruit-Trees of America, Cole's Fruit Book, and your Fruit Garden, and nave been a constant reader of the leading Journals of the day, and have never found anything to this purpose; the loss is no small item to me. Please give me what light you can on the subject. (I)

I found my Gooseberries attacked by an Insect which destroyed my whole crop; last season the crop fen prematurely from the bushes; upon close examination they appeared to be punctured as with the point of a needle, In me transparent varieties, I could see the windings and courses the young larva had taken, and when full grown, would eat Its way out, and make its way into the ground. The siae of the worm la about one-fourth of an inch In length, white, somewhat Slender, with a head quite black. The insect Is new to me, and I feel very much alarmed about my next crop. (2) We annually rejoiced over a lovely crop of Gooseberries; they were always exempt from mildew. The remedy I resorted to, was to shake down all the fruit, which was an easy matter, and drag them Into the walks to be trodden upon; but the scorching sun soon finished the cooking process, until Hfe was extinct Any Information you can give me on the above win be thankfully received.

Peaches win be a total failure in our locality the present year; the blossoms are an winter-killed. SAMUEL StoNER - Humberstone, 0. W.t April 17,1864.

(1.) Bud early in the season, and use shoots to bud from on whieh the leaf-buds are small.

(2.) We have not seen such an insect as you describe. Send us a specimen the coming season, if you can, You know a person sometimes gets confused, and either commits a blunder, or does nothing at alL It is thus with rue, in relation to the application of tan-bark to Strawberry beds.

An intelligent amateur, on the Hudson, in detailing his experiments with the Strawberry, In your instructive Hor-ticulturist, says, he applies tan in the full, up to the crown of the plants, (not stating how thick), and In the spring levels, and makes It equal over the bed, to tho depth of three inches. He also recommends mulching with tan. Immediately alter planting in the spring or summer. Another recommends applying tan in the fall; another in the spring. One makes use of the term "fresh tan "spent tan"; and another "old tan".

Some six or seven years since, I mulched, In December, after the ground had frozen up, tbrec-fburtbs of a Strawberry square, with tan that had been about my premises for at least eighteen months, and for three yesrs thereafter there was a marked favorable dinYrnee between the part mulched and the remaining quarter. The tan was spread evenly over the whole surface, to the depth of about three inches.

In the fallof 1660,1 had about one-fourth of an acre of fine appearing plants, scarcely one missing, set out the previous spring. This bed I covered with tan Just drawn from the tannery. This application was made before the ground was frouen. The result was, that nearly the whole were dead In the spring; and those having any life, so stunted as to amount to nothing. The varieties were IIovey's, Lorge Early Scarlet, and Willey's. The soil sandy loam, and stiff loam.

Now I think the result was effected by the tan. Am I right? One of my neighbors, also, attributes the loss of his plants to the same cause.

I have just planted out a few squares of favorite varieties, and am desirous of mulchlog them, with something. Shall I do It with "tan-bark," "fresh tan-bark," or old tan-bark,"- and how deep - and in the fall shall I cover crowns and all - and on the opening of spring is it neccssary to remove it from the crowns, or will theypush through it?

Minute and particular manner - not only for my benefit, toot the pabllo benefit - especially those who are afraid of tea-bark as a mutch to sawrberflef la more eonvenleal to procure tan-bark thai baa been need at a white lead laenuaosorj is there any object to this I propose trying the experiment recommended by Dr. H\ull, Mr Pasaib, eta, en a fear rows - , amn,or,la Ac May this atimuiant applied directly over the plants and leaves, or carefully poured around them? They do not state.

Is there any objection to spading tan Into the solll, after having been need as a mulch, tor three or four year T.

We regret being unable to enlighten our correspondent on the subject of tan, as we have not used it as a mulching for Strawberries, and are not chemist enough to answer from theory. Will some of our readers do us the favor to reply Many statements concerning it have appeared, but generally given so vaguely as not to be reliable or satisfactory. "T." alludes to this, and not without reason. As to "spading down the ton," we should say, with reference merely to its mechanical effect, that on heavy soil it might be good, but on light porous soils, injurious, except in cases where tan remained so long on the surface as to hare been converted into mold.