At a sale of French fruit trees, in New-York, April, 1841, I purchased with others, over fifty cherry trees, under the names of White Bigarreau, Red Bi-garrcau, Guine of Turkey, Bigarreau de Lyon, Royale Hative, BlackGriotte,etc.,but on their passage home the labels were lost; none proved to be better sorts than we had, except one kind, and that 1 supposed to be the Bigarreau de Lyon, and have so called it. I have never seen the cherry described in any foreign or American horticultural or pomological work, until in your Jan. Horticulturist, where you describe a cherry as "The Great Bigarreau." The shape, size, color and flavor, appear to be identical with the sort I have.. It has sometimes ripened a little before the Tartarian. It has a remarkable growth; the foliage is larger and longer than any I have seen, and I consider it the most desirable cherry known. If among the list above named, you think I have selected the right, you can adopt it, or wait until the bearing season, and I will send you samples of the wood, leaf and fruit.

Soon after the purchase alluded to, I commenced setting pear trees on quince stocks, (although told by my neighbors that they were short lived, and would not pay the cost,) and they hare succeeded well; borne early and profusely until the last summer, and dwarf pears have now become popular, and are much sought for here. Out of about three hundred trees, I have lost forty-five, thrifty and full of fruit, by blight. What is the cause, and what the remedy? I have not seen anything satisfactory on the subject. My plum trees are very productive, for the benefit and ravages of the curcu-lio only; covering with gauze, salt, lime, and mulching, have entirely failed. My next experiment will be with pigs and chickens. Very respectfully yours. Lewis Eaton. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 12,1851.

[The cause, in brief, of your pear blight, is the tenderness of the sap vessels of the foreign pears, whereby they suffer in the heat and cold changes of our Variable climate. The remedy is to wind straw ropes round the stem and larger branches of your dwarf trees, and mulch the surface of the ground over the roots. A cultivator of our acquaintance, who lives in a blight district, and who made wry faces for years, over the blight, has become a cheerful and happy man, since he has practiced this simple method. It is useless to go into long arguments - there is no end to them on this subject - but "a word to the wise," etc. Ed.]