B. Smith

The finest of all the Andromeda family, is A. floribunda; but we have never seen it, and we do not think it is yet introduced amongst us. The shrub is most beautiful, and the bloom like bunches of Lilies of the Valley.

B. Superfine

Season same as the preceding, or a trifle later. Tree a splendid grower, and bears early and profusely. Fruit large, handsome, sound and excellent. Not quite so prepossessing in appearance as the preceding, but when once known will command the highest market price.

Backing Plants

Plants always travel better by being sent upright in round baskets with sticks and mats round them; no system invented up to the present is equal to this, but it is the most expensive.

All delicate leaved plants, such as varie gated Pelargonium, suffer by the foliage being broken and otherwise disfigured by all other modes of package. The next best system is a good box, and the plants laid down and all spaces filled up with moss or small shavings, and as many plants turned out of pots consistent with safety, and put in sugar paper. This is a capital way of sending such things as tender Zonale, etc. More common things, as bedding plants, etc., are laid down with their roots wrapped up in paper to keep them together. By this means, the weight of the pots is saved. A great quantity can be packed in a small space and at a small expense, and the carriage cost is but trifling to any part. H. Cannell.

Bagley's Perpetual Raspberries, New Haven, Conn

This is a new variety, originated in New Haven, has been cultivated four years, and has proved itself one of the best raspberries for market and private gardens. It is perfectly hardy; needs no protection during the winter. The canes are about four feet high, and form a beautiful branching bush that supports itself, and needs no stakes or training, and are entirely smooth and free from prickers. The old canes bear a bountiful crop of delicious fruit during the month of July, when the new canes commence bearing, and continue to bear until frost The same cane bears another crop the following year. They have received premiums, and high commendations from all parts where they have been exhibited, as well as from hundreds of persons in New Haven, and other places, who have seen and tasted them the present season"

Baked Pears

Is it generally known that most of the keeping-pears (I can answer for Beurre Ranee, Easter Beurre, Swann's Egg, Chaumontel, and St. Germain,) arc excellent when baked, without any addition, - the juice being a rich syrup, giving the impression that a large quantity of sugar had been used? In this way windfalls, etc , otherwise worthless, may be turned to account. They require merely to be wiped clean and put into a dish; if heaped up so much the better. - P. W. J.

The Baldwin Apple In The North

The Granite Farmer furnishes the information that in Hanover, N. H., the young Baldwin apple trees suffer severely by winter-killing, and that it is found the cultivation of this fruit will have to be given up, in that region. It appears to succeed best when grafted into full grown trees. Perhaps the mode adopted by the most skillful nurserymen in cold-wintered Wisconsin would be best - that is, to bud the trees instead of grafting them, at three or four feet above the ground. This answers well there.