J. J. Smith, Esq. - Dear Sir: Some typographical errors have occurred in my letter to Mr. Phoenix, published in the December No. of the Horticulturist, which it may perhaps be as well to correct.

P. 554, for "Kerwick" read "Keswick;" "Hawthorne," read "Hawthorndean;" "Doming," read " Dominie;" "Breden Pippin," read Bredon Pippin." Third line from bottom, for " Carrol's Seedling," read " Pearson's Plate." P. 555, for "Banquet," read "Bang-up".

I am afraid we shall hear bad accounts of the severity of the present winter. The thermometer has here registered 37° below aero, and we have had a long spell of exceedingly cold weather. The other day I noticed that the young shoots of a plum-tree were winterkilled. It stands close to a vinery border, and had perhaps made too luxuriant a growth.

It may interest grape-growers to state, that the different varieties of the Chasselas prove quite hardy in this cold region. Mr. Turner has fruited two sorts on the grounds of the Hon. James Leslie, in Montreal; one of them the Royal. Chasselas. Mr. T. pronounces them, in open air, not superior to the old White Sweet Water. Some years since, I fruited the Chasselas de Fontainbleau in the open ground. All these hardy grapes, with us, require to be covered up in winter. Yours respectfully, Wm. Brown, (late Cockburn & Brown).

Hartford, Conn.

Dear Sir: My experience in the cultivation of apples warrants me in bearing testimony to the truth of the assertion of your correspondent in Kingston, N. Y. (H. H. Reynolds), that the Jonathan Apple "deserves a more extended reputation and cultivation.". It is, certainly (as you remark in a note), " a desirable kind for cultivation".

I had been surprised to find that it is so little known in this vicinity, where so many kinds of good apples are raised in great perfection. With me it is a free grower, very productive, bears while quite young, and fruits every year. The tree grows in handsome shape, and the beautiful red fruit is distributed very uniformly over the branches. For about a month in the fall - say from the middle of September to the middle of October - there is not a more attractive feature of the kind on my grounds than the Jonathan Apple-tree; in fact, it is perfectly ornamental, I esteem it as one of the very best of thirty choice varieties which I am cultivating; and if I should ever be so situated that I could have but four or five kinds of apples, the Jonathan should be one of them; and (by the way), the Red Astrachan another. Respectfully, yours, etc. Daniel S. Dewey.