In setting pots of plants outside the green-house for the summer, we have found that when embedded in sand, fine charcoal, or even tan-bark, their health and vigor were greater than when the pots were just set upon the surface earth. It is the general practice to set the plants from the house out on the north side of the building, and to occasionally give water; deviating from this course we have found our plants more vigorous and healthy in autumn when again to be returned to the house by selecting a place where the morning sun would reach them, and where some tree or building would throw on them a little shade at noon, and then arrange them by placing a board six inches below the level of the ground, and setting the pots on it to prevent roots working into the soil, and to secure certain drainage; then after placing the pots, filling between them with fine charcoal, if obtainable; next to that, sand ; and next to that, tan-bark or sawdust.

Editors of Horticulturist : I notice Mr. Woodward, in the last number of your journal, makes me say: "Hardly any boy of twelve or fifteen would know a peach or gooseberry." I have no recollection of ever having said this. My remark was: "No boy of twelve or fifteen would know a nectarine or apricot" Respectfully yours, H. W. Sargent.

Boston, 23d March. 1806.

[The quotation by Mr. W. A. "Woodward from Mr. Sargent's article in the Gardener's Monthly for December, and published in our March number, page 61, is correct Mr. Sargent probably had not his notes before him when he wrote the above. The difference is not with us, but lies between him and the Gardener's Monthly].