Dear sir: Having read much in the Horticulturist, pro et con, concerning a peach stone producing a nectarine and vice versa, I thought a circumstance that transpired under my own observation the past season, might not prove uninteresting to the readers of the Horticulturist.

Some five or six years since, I planted a few thousand peach stones to raise stocks from; but in budding them,quite a number failed to take the bud, and were consequently headed down the next spring, with the exception of the first in each row, which were left as markers; one of which produced the past season, a crop of peaches and nectarines. The peaches were of smallish size, good flavor, and ripened a few days later than the Early York.

The nectarines were of small size, well colored, and of fine flavor. Being unwilling to matter, I preserved a specimen of the nectarines till the fall show of our (Niagara county) Horticultural Society, when I presented it to some of our best judges of fruit, who unhesitatingly pronounced it a bona fide nectarine. This tree never has been grafted or budded. I did not find them, the fruit, on the ground, but picked them off the tree myself. These are facts, and (to me at least,) conclusive and self-convincing, which cannot be controverted.

If you think the above worthy of insertion in the Horticulturist, it is at your disposal.

I have taken the Horticulturist ever since its commencement; it is my hand-book on all subjects of which it treats. I remaiu yours most sincerely, Jas. Culver. Royalton, March 10.