B. S. Cooper, of Henderson, Illinois, writes thus to the Knoxville Journals -

"The severe effects of the cold of last winter upon fruit and other trees, are without a parallel in the history of this country. During the most intense cold, the mercury sank to about thirty degrees below the zero of Fahrenheit.

"The more tender varieties of fruits, as peach, nectarine, and apricot, are generally killed to the ground.

"Even some of the young shoots of the hickory, butternut, and some other indigenous forest-trees, have suffered to a considerable extent.

"Quinces are generally killed. The more hardy varieties of fruit, as apple and pear, have suffered far less on high, rolling land, than the same kinds on level soil.

"Young trees from Eastern nurseries have fared as well, or even better, than those reared from seed in our vicinity. Dwarf apple and pear-trees have almost entirely escaped.

"In an orchard of over four hundred dwarf.pear-trees, including almost every variety recommended by Downing, I have not had more than three or four killed, and these were all the Summer Franc- Real I only lost one dwarf apple, and it was on a wet piece of land. The Yellow Belleflower, Lady Apple, Fameuee, and Herefordshire Pearmain, appear to have entirely escaped in every locality..

"The following varieties of apples' have not been seriously injured, except on lands decidedly wet, viz: American Summer Pearmain, Red Astraohan, Benoni, Prince's Harvest, Early Strawberry, Golden Sweeting, Keswick Codlin, Autumn Strawberry, Cooper, Duchess of Oldenburg, Fleiner, Hawley, Lowell, Maiden Blush, St. Lawrence, Baily Sweet, Yellow Belleflower, Belmont, Danvers' Winter Sweet, Hubhaidston, None-Such, Lady Apple, Lady's Sweet, Mother, Newtown Pippin, Golden Russet, Spitzenburgh, Talman's Sweeting, Wagoner, Cole's Quince, Genesee Chief; Scarlet Pearmain, and Well's Sweeting.

"The following varieties have been severely injured, and in many cases killed outright, viz: Large Sweet Bough, Summer Rose, Fall Pippin, Holland Pippin, William's Favorite, Drap d'Or, Gravenstein, Hawthornden, Jersey Sweets, Porter, Pumpkin, Sweet, Baldwin, Bourassa, Norton's Melon, Northern Spy, Bawl's Janet, Beauty of Kent, Winter Swaar, Summer Queen, and Mylum.

"The following varieties of pears have generally escaped, viz: Bloodgood, Beurre Giffard, Doyenne d'Ete, Osborne's Summer, Tyson, Buffum, Beurre d'Amalis, Beurre Gouhault, Beurre Golden of Bilboa, Bergamot, Crassanne, Belle Lucrative, Dix, Doyenne White, Doyenne Gray, Forelle, Fulton, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Oswego Beurre, Oswego Incomparable, Seckel, Stephen's Genesee, Swan's Orange, Beurrt d'Aremburg, Passe Collmar.

"The following varieties have generally been severely, if not fatally injured, viz: Bartlett, Madeleine, Rostieser, Summer Frano-Real! Brown Beurre, Bevrre Resc, Beurre Diel, Duchess d'Angouleme, Flemish Beauty, Henry IV., Marie Louise, Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, Prince's St. German, Vicar of Winkfleld, Angora, Winter Nelis, Ott.

"The following varieties of cherries are fatally injured, viz: Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, Bun's Seedling, Downton, Downer's Late, Elton, and Yellow Spanish.

"The following varieties have entirely escaped, vis: Belle de Choisy, Belle Magniflque, Carnation, Early Richmond, Montmorency, May Duke, English Morrello, Beine Hortense.

"The following varieties of plums have escaped, vis: Coe's Golden Drop, Magnum Bonum Yellow, Red Magnum Bonum, Orange, Washington, Yellow Gage, and Smith's Orleans.

"The following varieties are mostly killed, viz: Bleeker's Gage, Duane's Purple, Jefferson, Lawrence's Favorite, Reine Claude de Bavay, and Cherry.

"Among roses, the Hybrid Perpetuals have almost entirely escaped.

"The above has been made out, after carefully examining very many fruit-trees in various localities."