Dear Sir - Several subjects touched upon in your January number, seem to deserve further agitation, before they are allowed to go off the list as settled; and as the old Granite State is snugly ensconced under a covering of nearly three feet of snow, so that the plow and the spade cannot be about their appropriate work, I hold it the duty of somebody who lives in it, to make it manifest by the pen, that our people though nearly buried, are not dead.

Believing that the only way in which progress can be made in "Rural Art and Rural Taste," is by a free interchange of ideas among those variously situated, as to soil and climate, who are interested in such pursuits, I avail myself of your kind invitation, again to offer you some suggestions, not in the way of a regular essay or scientific treatise, but for the purpose of aiding to keep up among your readers, a familiar conversation throughout the Union, on subjects of mutual interest; and first, let me add to your collection, my own experience on the subject of