Our correspondent T., of Torch Hill, Georgia, gives, in the Southern Cultivator, the following picture of a neglected apple-tree he has in his memory; it represents, too exactly, the condition in which they are left by the careless: -

"The roots tortured by the aphis, and torn by wild horses (and plows); the trunk barked by rabbits, bored by borers, pecked by wood-peckers, blistered to mortification by the sun, and plastered to suffocation by the scale insect. The forks, the home of caterpillars, and the leaves their sustenance; the limbs moss-covered; and the fruit - never failing, and never, by any possible complication of accidents, allowed to mature. Then, coming down, we get an inventory of its personal property. One tin coffee-pot: one earthen tea do.; various specimens of domestic crockery, some, too, - to particularize: three pair brogans; specimens, each, of plow, hoe, broom and skillet handles; skeleton remains of ox, principally ossa femoris and pelvic bones; do. of horse; do. of cat, entire; one "battling stick;" sundry bits of paling; articles of wearing apparel; clubs in quantity, from a walking stick to a martinpole!"

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Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will hold an exhibition at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on the 20th, 21 st and 22d of September. As it is desirable that novelty and beauty should be combined, all persons having fine plants and fruits are desired to correspond with Mr. William Saunders, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements.