We have received a letter from Messrs. ThoRp, Smith, Hanohktt & Co., of Syracuse, in reply to a note of Dr. EshlEMan in our last number Conoerning the Homuhmk Pear. It will appear in our next.

Explanations #1

A, the carriage-room; B, three stalls for cow, or horse; C, tool -room, from which is a stairway ascending to the loft; D, a closet under the stairs for harness; E, barn-yard; F, entrance to barn cellar, under the passage to the stable-door* A trapdoor may be made in the floor of the stalls, by which to convey litter to the cellar. A passage is left open from the toolroom to the cow's stall, which, if preferred, may be closed up. The tool-room will be found a convenient arrangement for any small rural establishment. The whole may be neatly constructed for about two hundred dollars.

This design is suggested as an economical substitute for the plan presented in the Horticulturist for June.

Worcester Co*, Mo., June, 1856.

Ground Plan. - 18 by 22 feet. Scale. - 16 feet to the inch.

An Explanation #2

We expressed some surprise last month that the Judges on Fruit, at the Brooklyn Exhibition, should have awarded the first prize to native grapes grown under glass in competition with those grown in the open air. Mr. Thomas Hogg, the chairman of that committee, has called upon us, and denied very pointedly that the committee did any thing of the kind; that, on the contrary, being convinced that these grapes were grown under glass, they passed them by, and gave them no prize at all. This is satisfactory, so far as the committee are concerned, and relieves those gentlemen from a grave responsibility. But the question arises, How, then, did these grapes get this award 1 Has the report of the committee been tampered with? We desire, for the sake of the reputation of the Brooklyn Horticultural Society, to have this matter cleared up; and we hope it can be done without implicating any body.

An Explanation #3

The Country Gentleman asks why the Delaware berry train of 1873, of 100 cars, carried but 400,000 quarts, when the Chicago berry train, of 23 cars, carried 100 tons, or four times as much per car. The answer is this: The Delaware cars are left at each station to be loaded, and the train, as it comes, picks them up, whether full or not, and passes on without shifting or reloading into other cars. Usually the cars average 3,000 to 5,000 quarts, but have a capacity of 400 crates, or 10,000 quarts. The Chicago cars are loaded full, hence average more per car, but the Delaware trains carry the most number of quarts.