Mr. Editor: More than forty years ago a family of children visited their grand-parents, then living " a great way out" of the city, on the old post-road to Albany, or Bloomingdale road; and from the garden they carried some nuts; and, on their return home, a brother and sister planted each a nut, and each nut produced a tree. They were nursed and cared for as children will nurse and pet a favorite plant or shrub.

The trees thus planted are large and beautiful, and have produced great quantities of fruit for more than thirty years past A sample of the last year's is herewith sent. The old mansion, garden, and parent tree, which were below the " great hill" (Murray Hill) of Manhattan Island, have passed away. The lady, once the sister-child - my wife - who planted and raised the tree, sends you this specimen of the fruit thereof.

Feb. 14, 1861. P.

[For which we desire to return her our best thanks. The nuts referred to are Madeira or English Walnuts, which we found to be excellent. We almost envy the lady the profound pleasure she must experience in the consciousness of having planted the nuts which produced these trees. Let every body, even the children, plant a tree; and if they can not plant a tree, let them plant nuts. - Ed].

Mr. Editor:- An effectual remedy for the ravages of the Curculio on Plums, Apricots, and other fruits has at last been discovered by Mr. Wilson King, of Erie, Penn. It is this: smoke the trees from the earliest blossoming till the young fruit is the size of a common bean, (say six weeks,) with Coal Tar; smoke in a calm evening once in four days, ten seconds to each tree.

I buy at the gas works a barrel of the Coal and Gas Tar for $1.50; and in the evening twilight, with a common foundry moulder's ladle containing two quarts of this tar, ignited with a match, I smoke one hundred trees (a few seconds to each tree) in half an hour; and not only curculios, but caterpillars, and every thing of insect kind, are completely driven away. I have now tried it two successive seasons, and not a kernel of my fruit has been stung. Several of my neighbors, members of the Erie County Agricultural Society, at my instance, have applied the smoke to one tree and left another near it unsmoked, and in every instance the fruit of the smoked tree was saved and the unsmoked lost. Through your widely circulated Horticulturist I desire to present this remedy to the public, satisfied that it is complete.

Very respectfully, Wilson King.

[In view of all the remedies proposed, the little Turk would seem to be destined to have little peace. We wish the little wretch would take it into his head to get disgusted, and leave for parts unknown, and never to be known. If he can stand the smoke of gas tar, it is more than we can; but then he has all the lives of a cat nine times multiplied. - Ed].

Plant Trees #1

We esteem tree planting hereafter to be a more profitable undertaking than either fruit culture, gardening or farming. Our American forests are being destroyed at a rate perfectly startling to the ideas of any one not familiar with the facts. The United States Department of Agriculture states that during the decade from 1850 to 1860, twenty millions of acres of timber land were cut down and put under cultivation, and during the decade from 1860 to 1870, it is estimated the census will reveal not less than one hundred million acres so cleared. Not a single acre has come into bearing to supply this enormous deficiency, and unless our American farmers are alive to the necessity of replanting their waste fields in useful timber, we will have an actual famine for wood within thirty years.

Were we the possessors of 100 or 1,000 acres of land in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska or Kansas, we could not put it to a more profitable use than to plant in larch, chestnut, oak and other woods, and wait ten, twenty or thirty years. We believe it would be a substantial inheritance to our children and a benefit to posterity, while the value per acre could not well be less than $200. The planting of forests is also an amelioration of climate, and were the West once freed from its cold winds, and an agreeable, uniform temperature induced, without dangerous extremes, the occupation of gardening and fruit culture would be fraught with less hazard, and give more abounding and regular returns. Plant trees, then, for your own health and prosperity.