OF the advantages accruing to the orchardist who mingles evergreen trees occasionally with his pears, apples, etc., I have before written, and it is, I rejoice to know, gradually becoming an acknowledged item toward success. The ameliorating influence of the evergreen extends really but about fifty feet; yet within that distance the bodily action of man feels it perceptibly, and so, reasoning with careful observation of animal and vegetable life, each year tells mo more and more that to ensure success and perfect development of either, certain warmth and shelter, etc., must be had. In the animal it is by means of artificial shelter and clothing in which they can be placed; but in the vegetable it must be by the subduing action of one plant upon another, and the evergreen, from long experience, is proved the safeguard, ameliorating nurse of the deciduous tree.

It has been during the past year asserted that evergreens soon grow so large as to displace other trees; let me say that if they are pruned each year from the time they are three feet high, by cutting out in spring time the heading shoot of each branch, there will be no trouble in growing the White Pine, Norway Spruce, etc., in and among pears or other trees at distances of twelve feet each ; but should it ever occur that the evergreen overspread its bounds, it will bear the shears, and not object to having its head sheared from bottom to top, so that it shall resemble a cone of six feet at base and fifty feet high, provided the cutting be done in April or May.

F, R. Elliott.