Tour judicious remarks respecting experimental gardens in the April number of last year, are so good that you deserve the thanks of every gardener in the United States, who wishes to see his profession advance from the miserable position in which it now generally stands. If as has been before said, "Man begins to build stately sooner than garden finely," as if gardening were the greater perfection, surely America with all its grandeur must be behind in the march in this respect. I do not deny that there are many places which will rank with some of the best kept up gardens on the other side the Atlantic, but generally speaking this is not the case. Yet there is sufficient taste and desire on the part of those who can afford to support such establishments. We find most of our wealthy citizens keeping a country house and retiring from the crowded cities when Flora puts on her gay attire. We see them wishing to have gardens, and those few who really get them enjoying their beauties. A further proof is in the universal love of flowers and the high prices that are frequent dollars in laying out their grounds, but which I am sorry to say is too often squandered by men in whom they have placed confidence, who have no ability for such things, who pitch, here and there, a stick of a tree in a hole not large enough to bury a cat, as accidentally as if they had fallen from the clouds, and think they have done wonders, and who instead of producing beauty and grace, and thus giving satisfaction, are at last cut short by the disgust of their employers.

If there is desire for such things, it cannot be denied that the universal wish to excel, will prompt American gentlemen to have as good gardens as most Europeans, providing they can get enough of the same class of gardeners as are there found in the best conducted places. Mr. Quin's comparison (in the July number) between a store-sweeper's wages and those of a gardener, are ill-timed and out of place. Indeed it seems to mo his whole argument will hardly bear the test of examination. It is hoped that the eruption may be quenched by a little common sense.

The profession is held back by the horde of pretenders who swarm all over the country, who have no ability but in their impudence, who can do every thing perfect in the porter house, and everything imperfectly in the garden, and who from their numbers, their presumption and their arrogance, make the gardener's calling a derision and a mockery. How are gardeners to expect, (except in a few instances) better remuneration than "hewers of wood and drawers of water," while the present state of things exists. It is the bounden duty of every true gardener to set a decided stand against such men, and to hold out the right hand of fellowship to any one who has public influence, and respond with the kindest feelings to him who in his public capacity, endeavors to raise gardening from its present forlorn condition, up to that position which it is entitled to hold. Such societies for the practical education of gardeners as you advocate, would do much towards bringing about so desirable a consummation. They would be the means of testing the abilities of the different men who would come within their sphere, and depend upon it that sphere would be a very extended one if fully carried out, sufficiently so to remodel the principal large cities have each its horticultural society's garden, and let there he in each a department for general culture.

Let it be known to gardeners both here and abroad that they would be employed, and their abilities tested by a scientific and experienced director, whose recommendation could be relied on, and there would be no lack of good and talented men applying for admission. Such societies would be a credit to the country. They would be supported at very little cost; in fact they might be made to be paying concerns,and gardeners abroad - real gardeners - not wheelbarrow trundlers - would know that there would be something in the way of an asylum for them to come to, and would be induced thereby to come over in greater numbers, when the host of pretenders would fall back before the face of experience, and fill only the situations of the oppressor and the penurious, and such places would in their turn become a laughing stock to all men of good taste. I have had some experience in the working of such societies in England, and can assert with confidence that they have done more to elevate gardening in that country than anything else. They have been the means during the last twenty years of making English horticulture a model for the world, of stimulating skill and raising a higher standard of perfection.

They have also been the means of attracting the attention of spirited observing and intelligent young men,who thereby have been induced to learn the profession, seeing in it something to occupy a talented mind. Plenty of such young men are now languishing in the nursery establishments abroad at low wages, and little prospect before them. These would be easily induced to come over here if they knew there were any chance of bettering their condition, and employing their talent, but in the present position they are ignorant of the true state of gardening here, and those who are here and know how they would be situated on landing do not like to encourage them to come out. Establish such societies as the above; let it be known that there are such institutes where the educated garden-er can find a resting place without having to every domectic about a gentleman's back door, and wages in the first instance will be no object, and although employers should have to pay a little more for the services of such men, they will generally and eventually be the gainers to a large extent.

Wishing you every success in your advocacy of the true interests of good gardeners, I am yours most respectfully, Wm. Chorlton, Gardener to J. C. Greene, Esq. Staten Island, March 4,1851.