I have a word to say in relation to the effect of the stock npon the graft.

About thirty years since, my father grafted two apple-trees of some size, with scions taken from the same tree, and of the same variety (Little Gore). The trees stood on precisely similar soil, and within a few rods of each other; but the original fruit on one was sweet and dry, while the other produced juicy and quite acid fruit. The produce of the graft exhibited a marked difference in form, flavor, and color; the sweet stock yielding fruit more marked with red, drier, less acid and firmer in texture than the other.

One of the trees is now dead, or I would send you a specimen of fruit from both. I am not able now to refer to the query mentioned by Mr. Huling, but it is a common remark, that " there are two kinds of Greenings," and there is. really so much difference in the Rhode Island Greening on different trees in this vicinity, that I am not surprised at the general belief in two varieties, and I am not able to prove that it is not correct, yet I am convinced, by several years' observation of all the facts within reach, that the difference is wholly due to the effect of the stock upon the graft, and that this variation has been continued and increased, as suggested by Mr. H., until, in some oases, the fruit would hardly be recognised.

In conclusion I have a question to propose. If scions of a fine buttery pear were grafted on a stock of opposite character, and this regrafted with a third, which of the first two would produce most effect on the last? Yours truly, Wm. F. Basset, Ashfield, Mass.

The Great Conservatory of the London Horticultural Society's gardens is about to be devoted to the growth of grape-vines. For these a border four feet wide has been made all round the outside of the house. It is bottomed with brickbats, over which are laid nine inches in depth of rough gravel for drainage, over that again are laid turfs broken a little with the grassy side downwards, and on these is put the soil in which the vines are to be planted. This consists of good sound loam mixed with burned turf which has been well soaked with liquid manure. Mr. M'Ewen is of opinion that vine borders should never be made wider than four feet at first. His plan is to widen them in proportion to the growth of the vines, and the outward extension of their roots. The latter have thus fresh soil applied to them at a time when they most require it, whereas if the border was made its full width at once, the soil on that side of it farthest from the house would be comparatively worthless for the support of the vines long before the roots had reached it.

The advantage of making borders piecemeal will therefore be apparent.

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The Berberis Dulcis, sweet Barberry, is thus alluded to by Dr; Lindley: - We have to thank the kindness of a New Hampshire correspondent, "A. W.," for some fine specimens of the fruit of Berberis Dulcis, a hardy evergreen shrub that bears profusely near Shirley. The branches are loaded with berries of the deepest purple, many of which are fully half an inch in diameter. When quite ripe they are said richly to deserve the name the species bears, but it is difficult to prevent birds carrying them off before their sweetness is formed. Berries of Berberis Darwinii accompanied them, but we fear that no time or sunshine will convert their acid into sugar. In the meanwhile, Berberis Dulcis may now be fairly placed among the smaller table fruits, along with currants, gooseberries, and their allies.

KEEPING Late Pears in large glass jars answers a good purpose. When the pears are gathered from the trees they are laid in the fruit-room for, a week or ten days until they are quite dry. Each pear is then wrapped in paper and placed in the Jars. When there is not sufficient fruit of one sort to fill a jar, then a late kind is put at the bottom and an earlier sort at top; when the jars are filled, they are stopped up and sealed; the name of the sort or sorts is written on a label, which is fastened to the handle. They are then all placed in the fruit-room, where they remain until used. Late kinds kept in this way, when used in March and April, were most excellent.