No. 2 is the Cherry, which is an enormous bearer and large, although quite acid, and needing considerable sugar to make it agreeable.

A cool soil is the best for currants, not wet, but moist. It should be well cultivated and in order, to keep the plant most free from weeds and grass. I think best of the tree shape. Trim out the lower branches and leave a bushy head. Plant the rows 4 1/2 feet apart, and plants 2 1/2 feet apart for fruiting, and manure highly.

Mr. Downing had seen bushes named White Grape and White Dutch, between which there was very little difference in color, or habit of growth, or size of fruit.

Mr. Sharpe, of Niagara county, had had an experience like that of Mr. Downing, and was perfectly surprised upon seeing the difference between the genuine White Grape and the White Dutch, as they stood side by Bide. The White Grape were double the size, and there was a very large difference in the quality of the fruit, while the habit of growth was distinct.

Mr. Downing spoke of the Versaillaise as fruiting in long bunches, so as to be easily gathered. The tree is the best and strongest grower that we have, and perfectly hardy, and is cultivated quite extensively about Boston.

5. The Gooseberry

Which are the best varieties of gooseberry for family and market purposes, and the best manner of culture and pruning?

Mr. Frost spoke of some varieties which never mildewed. The Mountain Seedling was . much better near Cincinnati than the Houghton, and a more upright grower.

Mr. Hoag thought Houghton's Seedling too small; thought the Mountain Seedling enormously productive, twice as large as the Houghton, and good for bottling. Foliage has a gloss as if it had been varnished.

Mr. Moody was accustomed to cultivate the English gooseberry on highly manured land, and suffered very little from mildew, but pruned very thoroughly.

6. The Rear

What variety, if but one, and if more than one, which varieties of pear-trees, in an orchard of three acres on quince, and at what distances would you plant exclusively for market purposes, and what would be the best modes of culture 7.

Mr. Fish, of Monroe Co., would plant the Duchess d'Angouleme, for it is a good grower, bears early enough, and being a large showy fruit, always commands the highest price in market.

Mr. Peck, of Ontario Co., would, if confined to one sort, plant the Duchesse; but, on the tame principle that the farmer cultivates more than one crop, would plant several sorts - Louise Bonne de Jersey, Vergouleuse, and if Vergouleuse blights double work it. Plant the trees ten by ten each way, and work between the rows with the horse cultivator, and hoe the trees as you would corn, without hilling much.

The mention of the blight here induced a discussion as to how bad it was and how it acted, etc, which wo omit.

Mr. Vick: There is no evidence that high culture induces blight, and I think it is the most false idea to allow any farmer or any person to suppose that good cultivation brings on disease. Again, others speak of the dwarf tree as alone being subject to the disease, while the greatest and worst pear blight ever known in this country was forty-five years ago, when working upon the quince was unknown - when there was not a dwarf pear-tree in existence. If we desire to havo fruit, and good fruit, we must labor for it, and as these various enemies arise up against it we must fight for it. We do not want to be like the inhabitants of tropical climates, where their bread-fruit and bananas, etc., all grow without any exertion on their part; they have nothing to do except pick and eat them. See what lazy curses it makes of the fellows! almost too indolent to eat! Articles, fruit, everything acquires value only as being the result, the product of labor. In Europe they work for their fruit. In England it is a constant battle to secure fine fruit. Why, my friends, there is one enemy to fruit in England (the wasp,) which is a worse foe to combat than all your annoyances put together. It sometimes compels the horticulturist to inclose his ripening fruit with gauze to prevent its access.

To be sure corn will grow if put out as many of our trees and vines are planted, but even a hill of corn requires labor to make it a decent hill. Gentlemen, we are too* gloomy and despondent by ten, yes, by a hundred times. We have meetings like this, and our remarks are reported, and these reports are copied into the English papers until in England they really believe that America is the hardest part of the world to live in. When they have a fresh pest there, which, like the woolly aphis, is particularly annoying, they call it the American blight.

Mr. Moody agreed with Mr. Tick, that as to pear blight we had not near the quantity now compared with forty years ago, when we considered the greatly increased number of trees: he remembered distinctly the blighting of standards in Cayuga county in his boyhood. This increased exemption from blight he thought was due to improved cultivation, for pear-trees used to be set out and then obliged to take care of themselves, and we now pay them attention equal to that required by a hill of corn. We keep the weeds down, and the ground loose. Can not have fine fruit without fair cultivation. For a single variety he preferred Louise Bonne de Jersey - next Duchesse - absolutely necessary to cultivate highly to get large pears, and these large pears are the kind that sell readily in market, and at high prices. Small, poor pears won't sell at all.

Mr. Townsend has his trees stand ten feet apart each way, but he thinks eight by twelve would be better. Louis Bonne is the best variety to make money out of, and next Duchesse, to be planted largely - some Vergouleusu, some Seckel - Bartlett double worked on White Doyenne*, and Beurre Superfin. At to blight, has often found that just as his trees have arrived at the bearing age, they have blighted - can not say that there is any liability in sorts - all varieties seem about equally to show this disposition to taken on pear blight.