I am anxious to hare from some of your correspondents who hare been engaged is the cultivation of Osage Orange for hedges, what has been the effect on them from the weather of the past winter. I have one, about 100 yards long, transplanted three years ago the present spring. The two first winters I protected it slightly with Sedge Grass; but it having attained the size of a man's thumb si the base, I considered it safe from the cola, and risked it last winter without protection. All the growth of the last year was killed, and many, say about one quarter of the plants, killed down to the ground. They are sprouting from the roots, however, but the beauty of the hedge is gone. It had not the average exposure of shrubbery in the New England States, and had been well treated and tilled. J. W. FOWLER.-Milford, Conn.

Hedges of various ages on our own grounds have passed this last winter and previous winters, when the cold was more intense, without the least injury. Even yearling plants in the nursery were uninjured, save on the points. In a neighbor's hedge, however, some five or six years old, we have noticed an occasional plant killed to the ground. The plants are over an inch in diameter. The plants in this hedge were set thinly in a double-row. We think that when they are set close, say six inchs apart, they shelter each other, and are leas liable to injury. The most destructive element here, during last winter, was high winds of several days continuance, when the ground was unprotected by snow, and the weather freezing, but not intensely cold. The roots of the Quince were injured in exposed places, just at the surface of the ground, and a little below. This has never occurred before, during our residence in the Genesee Valley - a period of fourteen years; and it may never occur again.