When pruning trees in the spring, Temember that for every bud or inch of wood you cut away, two more will be formed; and if you do not so cut as to throw the elongation from the last bud on the shoot left in an outward direction, your tree will soon be a mass of shoots and branches, and cause you to oppose any practice of pruning. On the other hand, if you carefully study the probable continuation of each bud left at the end of the shoot pruned, you can form your tree into a round, open, compact, or spreading head, according to your fancy. We could write a whole book on this item; but our belief is that a few practical words of guidance are all that is requisite to induce thought in the good common sense of our readers.

Mr. Editor : H. W. Sargent, Esq., in the Gardener's Monthlyi deploring that Amer-ica is the worst fruit-growing country in the world except the north of Europe, says: "I may say peaches and gooseberries are probably entirely unknown to children of ten years of age, though fifteen years since I grew them successfully".

I live within sight of Mr. Sargent's house, and although I can say but little of the peaches, I have had every year an abundance of gooseberries. The Downing, a high-flavored delicious fruit, the Mountain and the Houghton, are all American varieties, never mildew, are prolific bearers, and worthy of cultivation. I planted these many years ago to take the place of the Lancashire varieties, and they are very satisfactory; the children under ten knew where to find them in great plenty last summer. W. A. Woodward.