The Illinois Central Railroad Company have the credit of being the first managers of a line of transportation, with sufficient acumen to recognize the value to the country, and thereby the increased value to their roads, by the observation and researches of leading horticulturists. By the courtesy of the managers of the above-named road, a large company of Illinois horticulturists have been passed over it free, while visiting different fruit-growers and fruit-growing points for the purpose of examining and comparing modes of culture, varieties of fruits, soils, etc. We commend the example to other railroad managers, hoping that ere long they will be enabled to clear their brains sufficient to understand that in fruit-growing there are many men who travel to obtain and disseminate knowledge without a thought of pecuniary personal gain, and that to the labors of such men the increase of fruit growing and consequent increase of transportation is largely to be attributed; hence a little courtesy and liberality extended them would be creditable to the managers as well as productive of increased good feeling of fruitgrowers toward the road.