A correspondent of the N. E. Homestead writes as follows: "I was told that Louise Bonne and Duchess were better on quince, with some others, as Napoleon, d'Amalis, Belle Lucrative, etc. I purchased them and set them carefully, mulched, hoed and pruned, and ate of the fruit. I set at the same time standards of Bartletts, Flemish Beauties, d'Anjous, Seckles, Virgalieus, Winter Nellis, Vicars, etc. Now, after fifteen years, where are the dwarfs, and where are the standards ? Most of the dwarfs have gone under, and most of the standards are doing well, and one of the standards is worth to-day more than all the dwarfs I ever planted, and I have set hundreds. I have budded dwarfs, and bought dwarfs, and fine ones, too; have given them the best ground and best care, yet failed almost entirely. I say, Mr. Editor, I have no patience with a dwarf in fruit culture or mind culture; the return is meagre and unrequiting. I have tried dwarf peaches, cherries and apples; all are ' delusive. Apples dwarfed might pay if the fruit would bring $5 per bushel, for they seem hardy. Now for the standard pears. I have had some seventy-five or eighty varieties in my garden.

The Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Napoleon Rostiezer and some others are scarcely more tardy in coming into bearing on their own stock than on quince. Just give them a good start and they will go ahead, outlive us and the next generation.