In Hartford, Connecticut, the leading fruit cultivators, such as Messrs. Dewey, Terry, Turner, and others, are almost unanimous against the use of the dwarf pear. Mr. Stillman, is almost the only one whose success in garden culture is favorable, and his trees are yet young. Standard pears do well there, as is evidenced by the splendid show of fruit at the late State Fair. I will not swell your columns by giving the particular experience of each person.

It is evident that while the pear on the quince grows finely in Rochester, Boston, and perhaps along our whole seaboard where the air is tempered by water, that there are large tracts of country in which it has failed in the hands of skillful cultivators, and where success is the exception; where thousands of dollars have been sunk, and many years of valuable time spent in gaining this experience.

In all these places to which I have referred, standard pears do well. Like all other trees, they will produce fruit according to the treatment they receive, but, like the apple, they will grow and do something, even in the hands of an unskillful or careless cultivator.

I present these facts, Mr. Editor, with very few comments, to yourself and the readers of the Horticulturist, feeling that they speak for themselves. I hope to hear from other parts of the country, from persons who have cultivated the dwarf pear for eight or ten years.

One more statement, and I have done. Five years ago, I visited the extensive grounds of Mr. Rivers, at Saw bridge worth, England, and among other things, saw the 2500 Louise Bonne de Jersey dwarf pear trees, referred to in the Horticulturist, Vol. 3, 1848. Very few of them were what we should call thrifty trees, and most of them looked badly. On my asking the reason, Mr. Rivers told me that they were planted too deeply, and that he was resetting them. I should like to hear from them now.

[We have been anxious to set this question right before our readers, and to do so have never declined the insertion of an article in favor of the quince stock; though having no interest either way, we confess that for the whole country we have doubted the success of the dwarf in orchard culture, and we believe this opinion is now generally endorsed. As for garden culture we recommend the pear on quince stock in moderation. Extensive examination in many States of the Union, has proved to our satisfaction, that even in this a most respectable number of careful cultivators have been very greatly disappointed in their results. The great amount of outcry against these opinions, is the best argument in their favor. If a man were to declare publicly that Celery, or Tomatoes, could not be cultivated to a profit, people would simply smile and take little care to contradict the assertion. We have it stated this season, that pear culture is the most profitable of any other fruit growing in western New York. It is probably so; but, gentlemen, you announce prices as $10 to $14 per barrel; (see Thomas's Annual Register, for 1859). It might be asked, If it were easy to raise pears would they bring such prices? No man hesitates a moment in his decision whether the Atlantic Telegraph is speaking or whether it is silent; either it transmits messages or it does not; the facts are palpable, and we continue to receive all our European news by the old channels of the steamers.

Apply this to any event on which it is desirable to find the facts. We do have fears, say the advocates of their culture, but they admit they are difficult of culture, and so far they have been scarce, and good ones are very dear. The Boston papers told us the other day that " two dozen large and fine Duchess D'Angouleme pears, weighing nearly a pound each, were sold in the market, under Fanueil Hall, Boston, on Thursday, for six dollars a dozen." The cable has then spoken - but it speaks only to the rich - in Boston, too, where is the seat of pear applause; for the poor, for us of the middle States, the pear cable is not, even if we had the means of paying the "six dollars a dozen." Let any one calculate how much that will come to by the barrel, and this in Massachusetts, where we are assured pears are abundant. Hereaway we have had, and now have, almost none. Somebody asks us in a private letter, on which side of the "controversy" we range ourselves? We answer, on both sides. We wish pears may become abundant, that all our population may enjoy them. We fear to encourage any very expensive attempts at planting trees on quince stocks for the orchard, because we have yet seen so few encouraging results, and, as we intimated a year ago, the facts must be the remaining argument.

When the finest fruit becomes as plenty and as cheap as we hoped, the fact will be patent and well ascertained; when the cable transmits messages regularly we all shall know it. At present, though we have had joyous celebrations for the one, and Presidential pamphlets on the other, we have no pears in market, except a few at prices which, however "remunerative" they may be, are not encouraging for that public in whose behalf we have something to argue. - Ed].