Being a thorough-bred Yankee, my first instructive lisping, so they tell me, was "Go-ahead." When I became a tall boy, I was afflicted with sundry diseases peculiar to the "teens," among which was a love of jewelry ; so I sported a large ring : thereon was engraved my motto, "Go-ahead." Now I am an old man, behold it on the panels of my carriage. "Speaking of Peaches, Jasper," says my friend, "there is one of your go-ahead men has built a real Orchard House : here is his address, 'G. G. Hubbard, Esq., Brattle St, Old Cambridge.'"It is absurd to suppose I raised excuses. No, gentle reader, I am an enthusiast of the first water, and would rather erase from my panels and plate those envied armorial bearings granted by John of Magna Charts notoriety, cut all our npper-tendom acquaintance in Gotham, and risk my daughter's being married to some plebeian who could not reckon a line of ancestry of some six or seven hundred years, than forego the pleasure of visiting gardens and seeing everything new or progressive ; so seizing my hat, I mount the horse-cars, and am soon before one of those beautiful suburban residences famous around Boston. This is well planted with evergreens, very fairly arranged, and superbly kept: inquiring for the gardener, I found Mr. Welsh, who very kindly communicated all particulars.

The house is built of the best materials, and is well finished ; runs north and south, and faces the west, is somewhat fiat, as the following dimensions will show : length, 115 feet; breadth, 18 feet ; height of back wall, 12 feet, of which 3 1/2 is glass ; height of front wall, 8 1/2 feet, of which 2£ is glass; both front and back wall sashes are movable for ventilators. There are 150 trees in tubs of 18 inches in diameter, consisting of Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Cherries, Pears, and Figs, but principally Peaches and Nectarines, and although they were only tubbed early last fall, they are very thickly fruited; but I did not notice they were more than a week or ten days in advance of those in the open ground; but more healthy, vigorous trees it is impossible to conceive.

Now everybody is aware Orchard Houses originated with Mr. Rivers, of England; but the climate of Old England and the climate of New England are very dissimilar, at least so I found it during my sojourn there; and Mr. Rivers is entitled to the best thanks of his countrymen for showing them how to secure a crop of Peaches, etc., which drenching rains and late spring frost always rendered uncertain. The Orchard House of Mr. Rivers is a mere skeleton, with a few rough boards for lids, permanent openings for ventilation, immovable sashes. Their climate requires nothing more. The means are sufficient to the end. T; ward off heavy rains and slight frost, which destroy the organs of fructification, is all that is necessary. Compare their weather tables with ours in the months of March, April, and early in May, and then let me ask anybody what would be the condition of the occupants of an Old England Orchard House in a New England climate. The extremes in twenty-four hours are something that would frighten an English gardener.

Mr. Welsh informed me that the temperature in and out of the House by night was identical, and that as a precautionary measure he had covered up his trees with sea-weed, in order to retard them; for had he availed himself of our bright and glorious sunshine, the night would have used them up as surely as if they had been in the open quarter. Now what does this suggest? a hot-water pipe, a heating apparatus, if you please, and there we drop the term Orchard House; it at once and forever ceases to be one in the English acceptation of the term.

My experience assures me that all trees in their dormant season are as well and perhaps better in a cellar or some such place where the temperature is not hot enough to excite, nor cold enough to reach zero, till they are wanted, and then transfer them to the House, where you have some command over the temperature.

Another English method for growing the Peach under glass is somewhat common in this neighborhood, and I say erroneous, as no calculation of the immense difference of climate could have been considered. I mean permanent planting. All peaches grown under glass, if in tubs, and not ripe by the 20th of June, may with advantage be removed to the open air; if permanently planted the sashes ought to be removed, for a thousand and one reasons. A very important advantage of tub culture is, that, while you secure four, five, or six dozen Peaches from a tub, you get a crop of grapes also. This I suppose is Mr. Hubbard's intention, as I noticed a vine to each rafter and a vine border outside. All praise be to him for this grand beginning. I impatiently wait the spring of 1861. With pleasure I leave this, and bend my steps to Hovey's nursery - this man of seedlings and importation: between the two you always find something new. I was a few days too soon for the Strawberries, Hovey drew my attention to a new English variety, called Wonderful, and, according to present appearances, a just appellation. It is an immense bearer, and very hardy. Sir C. Napier, ditto; and I see by the report in the Gardener's Chronicle of the London exhibition, that all others play second fiddle.

La Constance also looks very promising; so does Wilson's Albany; it is unquestionably very hardy, and an immense bearer, but I am afraid the general opinion respecting its flavor is but too true; at all events, this season will decide and define its position. It is a sin-, gular fact, that although the Hovey Seedling has been before the public these twenty years, it has not been surpassed by anything; truly this is not in keeping with my motto. I was sorry to hear him say Pears had not set as he had anticipated, though his great avenues of trees looked remarkably healthy. The Hon. M. P. Wilder told me the same doleful tale. The public have, as they ought, very generally responded to his invite to purchase Thuya Hoveyi. Surely it is a treasure, a gem, an invaluable acquisition to ye of the North, although it will not supplant Thuya aurea. Where T. aurea is not hardy it is a glorious substitute. The Japan Lilies looked remarkably healthy in a bed 4 1/2 feet by 10 or 80 long; last year I was fortunate enough to see them in bloom, and was astonished to see how much was accomplished by one step in hybridization; but what struck me most was the hardy robustness of those seedlings compared with old Roseum and Rubrum; indeed, it is what the Shetland pony is to the dray horse.

Brydges, in reviewing Lord Byron's "Lament of Tasso," says, "Had Lord Byron written nothing but this, to deny him the praise of a grand poet would have been flagrant injustice or gross stupidity." Now I thank Brydges for furnishing me with a sentence to express my ideas of Hovey and his Lilies: but enough, I have more Boston Jottings, if wanted; and singular enough, though my motto is "Go-ahead/' my name is Jasper Standstill.

[We rather think we have you, Jasper, but do not feel quite sure. Suppose you try your hand at "Jotting" again, and let us know what other folk are doing in Boston. The Hovey may be in greater danger than you imagine. - Ed].