Will you please Inform me of the best time and mode of trimming a Hemlock hedge which was set out about the 25th of May. It is not that Its rapid growth demands any very vigorous pruning, but because it is so thin and straggling. A Constant Reader.

Let it alone till next spring, and shear it just before new growth commences. If your plants are small, they will thicken without much shearing; but if tall or thin, they will scarcely ever make a good hedge.

Will you please inform me, through the Hortculturist, by what rule, In your opinion, one should be governed, in figuring any fruit to be placed before the public, as a representation of the fruit produced by any plant? Should the extra or largest fruits be selected, the average size, or what size J. J. - Boston.

Our own rule is to select fair average specimens produced under good culture; the very largest, or the smallest would of course convey an erroneous idea of the fruit.

Incloerd I send you a couple of Cherries, alto a abort bit of its stock and a lest I think it will be something new to you. It grows wild here on the shores of Lake Erie. I have a few stocks of It in my garden, and hare budded them with the Bigarreau. The beds look Terr fine, but I do not know how they may prove to be; but if they grow, I think they will make ane dwarf trees, for the stock never in Its wild state grows more than six or seven feet high, and generally bears immense crops when only eight or ten inches high. It is called the Sand Cherry here, but what Its real name is I don't know. If you can tell, I should be glad to learn. Those I send are very imperfect specimens on account of the drouth; their general size is about the site of the common pie Cherry in their wild state. Daniel.

This most be the Ceraem depreeea of PursH, and C. pvmila of Miohaux. THE common name of which it the "Sand Cherry." Its employment as a stock is well worthy of experiment.

I wish to propagate some Apple, Pear, Poach, Plum, Cherry Almond, and Quince trees, from cuttings. Please Marts me when they should be cut from the parent trees; when they should be planted In the ground, how the ground should be prepared, how the cuttings should be managed during the growing season, whether watering and shading in necessary or not. What length cuttings should be cut, and how prepared for planting Where do they emit roots, at the base or at the buds that are inserted under the ground In short, give me an account of the whole mode of cultivation, from the time the cutting is removed from the parent tree until It has grown to a well rooted tree. A Constant Btader.

We regret we cannot comply with the very reasonable request of "A ConbtaNt Rradrt;" but none of the trees mentioned, except the Quince, can be propagated from cuttings, and "The fruit Garden" gives a much more complete account of their management than we could possibly here.

I haw s piece of ground which Is called Walnut soil with us. It la a deep, and very black doil, becoming loose when worked. I wish to know if such ground would be suitable for fruit, auch as Peaches, Pears, and Grapes. I have also a lot of ground which la a heavy clay, mixed with gravel Will thls do for the Plum and Apricot? J. H. N.

The "Walnut soil" will answer for Peaches and Grapes, if perfectly dry at all seasons. The gravelly clay is just what yon need fox Pears and Plume, and Apricots on Plnm stocks.