The cultivation of the pear-tree grafted on quince roots, is now being a subject of discussion among fruit growers; we should be sorry to see this system of dwarf culture fall into unmerited disrepute. It is a fact beyond dispute, that where a judicious selection of sorts that are adapted to this system has been made, and proper care given in culture, there has been no want of success. It is only by experiment that we can ascertain the kinds adapted to special systems of culture; and in making these experiments, failures must be expected. The list of pears that have been found to succeed on the quince stock, is sufficiently extensive for ordinary purposes of utility, and the list is yearly increasing. The Duchess d'Angouleme, Beurre' Giffard, Glout Morceau, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Vicar of Winkfield, and Easter Beurre1, will form a reliable collection; but no collection can be reliable unless properly cultivated. Let the ground be loose, deep, and mellow, and not saturated with manure. Plant so as to* cover the quince root, whatever others may say. Mulch, both summer and winter. Prune understandingly, and success will be certain.

But do not attempt to improve upon the practice of successful growers until you first learn to equal it, nor spend money on special manures, or any other extraordinary expedients, until you are successful under ordinary cultivation.

Fruit #1

Fig-trees are not sufficiently hardy to stand northern winters without protection; they may, however, be preserved, by bending them down, and covering with soil. They are rather rigid when they get old, but a slight twisting will rather improve their fruiting. They may be grown in pots or boxes, preserved in the cellar, or under a greenhouse staging, during winter, and set out on the lawn, in a sheltered position, during summer. When the leaves fall in autumn, they should be kept dry until growth commences in spring. Poor soil is best for them, and water copiously during growth. Orange and lemon-trees may be wintered in cellars, but they must be kept dry, unless the air is dried artificially, when they may require an occasional application; they will stand many degrees of frost when the soil is kept dry. It is related that, on opening a house in Paris which had been closed for two years, several orange-trees were found alive, although they had not received any water or artificial heat during that time.

There is reason to believe that they may be preserved, during winter, in barns or out buildings, if kept dry and dark.

Fruit #2

In setting out young plantations of raspberries and blackberries, cut down the canes to within a couple of inches of the ground; a young, vigorous shoot will be produced, and the plant become healthy and permanently established. The anxiety to procure a few fruits the first season, is prejudicial to the ultimate well-being of the plants.

Fruit #3

He continues: "An unequalled fruit crop is rejoicing our section of Georgia, and in all the lower part of the State. Above us, in the mountain section, where our great apple crop is made, nearly everything was cut off by frost the last of April. There is a fine crop at Fruit-land, near Augusta. Here in early June, we have already three varieties of ripe apples, viz., May, June, and Harvest; and of Pears, Amire Joannet and Madelaine; Plums, the Chickorow and the Gentleman, the latter a new variety from Germany, which seems quite as early as Primordian and of fair quality for the season. We have also the Apricot and the Cherry in great perfection".

In a Southern paper we find it stated that the Shockley Apple was kept over till the "May" came to perfection this season.

Fruit #4

With the exception of the smaller fruits and melons, this has not proved a favorable season. Apples and pears are scarce, and the latter, where there are any, are greatly infested with worms, so as to fall off prematurely. Peaches in [moderate quantity have made their appearance. We regret to see by Mr. Buchanan's report, on another page, that the grape crop is poor at Cincinnati. There are discouragements in all businesses, but it will not do to give up.

Fruit #5

That the average season for fruit has been a poor one in most sections of the union, all admit; but if report is to be believed, there have been some instances of remarkable success. In regad to peaches, the prices have been unusually high, very few cultivators having any for sale; yet we hear that the Messrs. Reybold, of Delaware, have sent fifty thousand dollars' worth to the markets of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York Keeping a large steamboat of their own for the conveyance. These peaches were raised on an island, newly planted, in the Chesapeake Bay, their old orchard in Delaware having failed. Another party is reported to have made ten thousand dollars the past season by peaches alone. We can believe this if we judge by the prices obtained, for we saw fine specimens sold at rates varying from four to eight dollars the bushel. Plums, too, made their appearance in considerable abundance from the Delaware Peninsula, where their enemy does not seem yet to have penetrated, but where a railroad having been made, no doubt he will soon be en route. Apples are very scarce everywhere, poor ones commanding from three to five dollars the barrel. The best pears have been retailed at twenty-five cents each.

Those few who have had crops may congratulate themselves on the prices obtained from.

That bounteous feast which Earth, the general mother, Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles In the embrace of Autumn.

The Ploughing Machine mentioned last month was taken to the Illinois State Fair, where, we hear it has done everything that was hoped for it.