All who have had any experience in the matter, are fully convinced of the luxury and healthfulness of fresh and succulent substances for pies at all seasons of the year. Yet the idea has never suggested itself to the many, or if it has it is not practiced upon, that a cycle of such substances may be had so as to furnish fresh material through the year. The Pie-Plant furnishes a beautiful link in this connecting chain, coming, as it does, when Apples begin to lose their freshness, or, as they are in many families, not to be found at all, and before Gooseberries, which have not yet found place in one garden of twenty to any tolerable extent. Yet how few cultivate the Pie-Plant I Why, we know not, for nearly all are fond of it when properly cooked, and it can be raised as easy as the Burdock when once introduced into the soil. Neither of them will grow successfully in poor soils. The Burdock chooses a location for itself, and the Pie-Plant is nearly always thrust into some poor corner of the neglected garden, and then blamed excessively if it will not produce large, fine footstalks where even common weeds would refuse to grow, and where no grass would vegetate, unless it be the ever intrusive Quack. We once planted some miserable, puny roots of the Pie-Plant in a rich, deep soil.

The consequence was, the next year the size of the footstalk increased one-half. The following autumn, before the setting in of frost, we covered the bed some three or four inches deep with fresh horse manure. This kept the roots in fine preservation through the winter; and early in spring, when the ground was fairly settled, the manure was mixed with the earth by a deep and thorough forking. No wonder that the vigor of our plants was increased in a wonderful proportion I As soon as any buds appeared they were taken off - the leaves were cut as often as they became large enough for use. The next long and proportionably slender, we have now large, broad leaves, and stalks so strong that all who see them are inquiring where we got our new variety of Plant, so luxuriant, strong, and beautiful. The answer is conclusive: cultivation has done it; and the simple process we have followed, if pursued by others, will, on a small piece of land, and with very little labor, furnish them with an abundance of pie material at the season when, with many, there is the greatest dearth in that article.

If gypsum is sown on the young leaves when the dew is on, it will push their growth finely by aiding the manure at the roots in giving them nourishment We have no doubt but this article can be raised in the way we have adopted, so as to furnish it to cultivators at the rate of enough for a pie for half a penny. What a cheap comfort I We have somewhere in our travels noticed another error in the cultivation of this plant It consists in raising it in elevated beds, formed by making a large frame of slabs or boards and filling it with manure and earth, in which the roots are planted. This may give them a rich soil, but not a good one - too dry, decidedly. It may answer well in early spring, when rains are frequent and plenty; but as summer approaches, and long, dry, warm days come on, the plants must suffer for want of proper moisture - the leaf-stalk lose its succulence, become stringy, insipid, concoct more of the acid principle, by which it is rendered unpalatable, if not injurious, - and thus its value for half the season be entirely lost; while with a proper locality and care it will furnish a good article, always at hand until September, thus giving a grateful variety to the rich contributions of the summer months.