Editor Horticulturist:- The peaches in this neighborhood, which is along the bay, hare not been hurt by the winter; but west of here I understand about half are killed. This reminds me of an article that was going the rounds of the papers, saying that to always have a crop of peaches was to graft on the plum - would this hinder the peach which forms in the fall, from freezing in the bud?

About fifteen years ago, our people commenced stripping the Damson-trees of their fruit in a green state - now we can't raise them for the black knot - can't say that was the cause - but we had fine healthy trees previous to that time, and plenty of fruit.

Is there such a thing as an apricot turning to a pear? A neighbor of mine tells his tale - that he planted some seed of the apricot Some few years after he moved, and took with him the trees, which were in bloom at the time; of one these the top died, and sent up a shoot from the root which proved to be a pear, which fruited the third year; nearly a Seckel, with few seeds and hardly any core. The pear may improve as the tree gets older. This tree is opposite my window; saw it when it was planted; is a very handsome tree; the owner refused ten dollars for it at three years' old; and I would like to believe that it came from the root of the apricot, if I knew that such a thing had ever happened before.

Tours truly, Pleasonton Hamon.

Near Dover, Del, Feb. 26, 1861.

[Grafting on the Plum will not save your peach-buds from freezing. There is no such thing as an Apricot turning to a pear; and if your neighbor is nursing his tree with that idea, he is nursing a great delusion. Natural laws are fixed beyond all such changes as that - Ed. ]

Mr. Editor:- There is scarcely a horticultural journal I receive that does not contain many complaints from different sections of the country, of the difficulty of making Roses live and bloom the first year.' Those complaints are generally made by novices, who think the Rose should grow like a hill of corn. Once planted, he expects a crop; but this is not so. Roses require a little more attention than many bestow upon them. Now let us take a look at the other side of the question. Roses are grown in greenhouses, in temperatures sometimes from sixty to ninety degrees. Those plants, in fact, are not fit for growing out of doors. Although they may not die, their growth is frequently so much checked that the growing shoots make but little progress after their first flowering. Roses as well as all other hard-wooded plants for outdoor cultivation should be grown in a low temperature, not over sixty degrees. But here is a difficulty: nurserymen, the greater part of them in this country, generally employ inferior gardeners, because they work at low pay, thereby saving the cent and losing the dollar.

Let them take a glance at gentlemen's private establishments in every part of the country, where the best of gardeners are employed, and see how many there are daily flocking there begging to purchase plants and fruits, while the neighboring nurserymen have the same varieties, and little inquiry for them. Nurserymen would not engage a gardener from a private situation, because he could not understand nursery business. They are at a loss to know the difference. Gardeners coming to this country can not wait five years for a nursery situation; they have to take hold of the first they meet, thus leaving the best of them in private situations. Perhaps it would be well to mention, that like mechanical trades in this country, the learners become gardeners in two years. There are many such coming along in our day. These are the men that cause so many complaints of the failure of plants. A man can not become acquainted with gardening in a few days, nor can he become a phytologist All gardeners who learn their business in Europe must serve their time in a nursery, otherwise they can not understand gardening to perfection. Perhaps it would be well to mention what difficulties they have to surmount in order to become masters of their profession.

First, when a man is recommended to become a gardener, no matter if his father was the Lord Mayor of London, he has to humble himself to the position of a working man: he must take to the spade and first learn to trench; after that he must learn to grade, mark out walks and alleys; then he must join the working men in the bedding-in of all kinds of plants and trees; again, he is sent to tie after the budder and grafter. In rainy days, during this time, he is sent to the shed making Agaricus campestris or Mushroom spawn; also the making of labels, Ac. Next, he is taken to the packing sheds, from thence to the her-biscous grounds, then to the flower garden, thence to the compost-house, and then takes a step into the vinery. Next comes his turn to the greenhouse, and lastly to the propagating house, where he finishes his long term of seven years. There a man can not become a professor in two years; but in this country there are many, who do not know the differences between common soils, who are still gardeners, and perhaps writers for some of our valuable journals.

I have perhaps exceeded the proper limits on these simple matters. At some future time I will say something on the subject of Plants. I suppose it is time that a subscriber of three or four years' standing should say something, or trouble his editor a little. The above is a hint to those persons who wish to employ first class gardeners, and only offer them $25 per month.

Limerick, Maine. ' John C. Rilly.

[Ton have opened a prolific subject, which might be profitably followed up. Perhaps some of our correspondents would like to continue it pro and con. We shall be glad to hear you speak on the subject of plants. - Ed].

Editor of the Horticulturist:- The "Large Early York" and "George IV." Peaches are identical The tree which Michael Floy cut the buds from, in Mr. Gill's yard in Broad Street, New York, and re-named George IV., was sold to Mr. Gill under the name of Large Early York. The Peach is a seedling of the true original Red Rareripe, (Morris Red Rareripe of Downing,) and was originated from seed by my grandfather. It has globose glands, and small pale flowers.

The original Red Rareripe is a seedling of the Grosse Mignonne of France, and was grown from seed brought out by emigrants at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

The Early York and Red Rareripe of Downing are both serrate, (without glands,) and this Early York has large flowers, and are both misnomers, apparently of a distinct parentage, and are both distinct from the original varieties so long ago and so widely disseminated by my grandfather and father. Latterly the word " Large " has been added to the name, so as to distinguish it from the Early York of Downing's work.

My father sent the Large Early York to Wm. Forsyth, of England, about the year 1790. Mr. F. had then charge of the Royal Kensington Gardens, where this Peach received the new name of Royal Kensington, and in an after importation of fruit-trees, my father received back his old favorite under this new title.

It is a somewhat amusing circumstance that the Large Early York, when sent to the London Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick, received no special encomiums until it was afterwards sent there under the name of George IV., when it at once assumed an important position, and was announced as of very superior quality, and the best suited to the climate of England of all American varieties; these remarkable facts not having been ascertained previously, although the same fruit had been growing there for many years under the unassuming and lees regal name of Early York.

The original name, Early York, refers to New York. It was also called " Large Early," " Large Early Rareripe," and " New York Rareripe," and latterly has received the additional names of " George IV.," " Haines1 Early Red," " Honest John," etc. It is a genuine American variety, whereas the Early York of Downing is supposed to be an imported variety.

Flushing, L. I, March 5,1861. Wm. R. Prince.

[The history of this Peach, though not new to us, will no doubt be so to many of our-reader*. So, you see, Mr. Prince, there is something in a name, after all; and what was true in 1790 is true in 1861. It is to be regretted that our fruit-books pay so little attention to the glands, flowers, and serratures, in the description of Peach-trees. Mr. Prince's article has reference to the list of Peaches presented by the American Institute, in which the word Large is appended to Early York in parentheses. - -Ed].