It may appear out of place in me to submit any remarks on the peach, to cultivators in this country, where this fruit is cultivated to such an unlimited extent. The best manner of training this tree, is what I particularly wish to notice, conceiving it may be useful in several of the northern states; though not required in the middle or southern states, from the great ease and little care with which this delicious fruit can be grown in its bounteous soil and fine climate. So freely does it grow, that it can be scarcely called cultivated. I have been particularly struck with, 1st. The great extent to which they are cultivated. 2d. The little or no attention given in their cultivation. 3d. The immense mass of rubbish called peaches, which are poured into the markets. True, I have seen good fruit, but good was the exception, and by no means the rule; the overwhelming majority, to say the least, were very poor; and this in a soil and climate capable of producing as fine peaches as any region on our globe. If we inquire more minutely into their culture, we shall probably find that the whole routine of culture, from the procuring of the stone to the gathering of the fruit, have been equally bad.

The stones probably are procured from any quarter, never caring whether the " Yellows" are prevalent there or not; spring arrives and instead of being planted out at proper distances, they are sown by handfuls in drills, when they are drawn up thick and crowded, the plants choking each other for want of air, and without the proper amount of nourishment for their roots. How can they gain strength or mature their wood under such treatment? The thing is impossible, and now in the first start, in the very infancy of the tree, its constitution is tainted and broken. In those drills they are sometimes budded - without being at any time transplanted, until they are offered to the public, cheap, by the hundred or thousand, and how many persons are there that will buy this cheap stuff rather than give a fair price for well cultivated trees. When they have got them, do all prepare their ground and plant them properly? Alas! I fear the contrary is more generally the case, as is too well known! Planted and growing, are they regularly pruned, the fruit thinned, and every other attention given which the fruit requires? If not, how can we expect the trees will go on, year after year, bearing abundant crops; must we not rather expect that the trees will soon sink into feebleness, sickness and premature decay.

I have said the constitution is impaired, or destroyed, in its infancy, and if so, can it ever regain it? Will the child that has been broken down in infancy for want of food and air, form the strongest and most athletic man? I think most persons will answer in the negative. Precisely is it the same with the tree. The Larch is planted as a timber tree to the amount of many millions annually in the mountains of England, Wales, and Scotland. Let us see how these plants are raised. One plan is, sow the seed in beds where it is allowed to remain two years, when they are lifted and planted out; this is a cheap method, but a very bad one, as when the plants have stood two years they become thin and drawn; it has few fibres, but on the contrary a few long tapering roots, which are generally injured when lifted, and when planted take a long time to recover themselves; indeed many die from the check which they receive, so for one or two consecutive seasons, they require the vacancies to be filled up.

Another method is, after the plants have stood one or two years in the seed bed, to plant them out in lines in the nursery, for a year or two, after which they are finally planted out where they are to remain; this is a better system than the first, though not equal to the manner I shall now describe. Sow the seed thinly, in light, well prepared ground; if they grow well, they should be, by the end of the first year, three or four inches in height. as they are now but one year old, there will be no difficulty in moving them with all the fibres they possess, and setting them out thinly in a well prepared piece of ground hence, by the end of the second year, they average from twevle to fifteen inches in height. They are now lifted and planted out where they are to remain, and from the transplanting of the first year, they now move with a mass of fibres which strike immediately into the ground, the plants themselves farming shoots the first summer from nine to twelve inches long, and go on after as rapidly as if they had never been moved; when compared to the other two systems, we find they remain stationary, or make very little progress for the first year or two, and never grow so rapidly or fine.

I bring the case of the Larch forward, to illustrate my idea of the necessity of growing this, or indeed any other tree, from its infancy, freely and thriftily, without impairing its constitution, from want of food, light, air, or improper checks of any description whatever; once its constitutional strength lost, it can never regain it. Do the breeders of fine animals neglect them while young, and only tend them with care when they arrive at a given age; nothing of the sort - they know full well to their cost, if they are not careful and kind while the animal is young and growing, they never will have anything worth figuring at any of our state fairs.

We will now pass by the youthful days of our trees; but before doing so, I shall make one more remark, bearing upon this point. The growers of plants for the great London exhibitions, in what way do they produce those matchless specimens of cultural skill which surprise every one who sees them? They commence with young, healthy, thrifty plants - any plant that does not possess health and vigor, they would not waste time and attention upon, as it would be wasted, nothing more - these are potted liberally, grown in warm, well constructed houses, fumigated, syringed, etc, with every possible attention given to induce a healthy growth for two or three years, during which time they are not allowed to produce a single bloom - there is no check in any shape given. When the plants are of good size and shape, and have concentrated within them, health, strength, and vigor, and are capable of doing what is technically called work, they are then, and not till then, allowed to bloom. Should any of the plants look in the least delicate, while passing through this training period, they are immediately destroyed, as it would be considered a waste of time to keep them longer.