What a patient, indefatigable man, Professor Turner is! Why, one-quarter of the difficulties he has to contend with, would wear out the patience of half the modern Jobs in the universe. What with the curculio, the grape-rot and the pear, apple, and quince blight, he must have a time of it! out of all which, I most heartily wish him a safe deliverance. His locality seems to be rife in such evils.

The whole pear-growing community are under great obligations to Prof. T. for his plain and truthful notes on the fire, or sun-blight. His points, no doubt, are well taken - for that locality, if not for others. A specific may possibly be found for this terrible malady) and if investigation will do it, he is the man to ascertain it. The cause of the disease-* for disease it is, no doubt - must first be ascertained. That accomplished, one half the battle is won, and a remedy will not be long in the discovery; but whether of easy application, is another question. As in the case of the curculio, it may be more expensive in the application than the disease itself; but it will be a consolation, at least, to know that we have a remedy.

As to the extirpation of the curculio by the frosts killing the fruit, I have my doubts. If there is no fruit to sting, the curculio will live, and propagate his kind elsewhere. I fear they will always be on hand whenever our trees are in bearing.