As to the demand being regular or uncertain? My experience is - that you can never take fruit into New York at a wrong season of the year, and you can never take enough of it. But if you take all grapes - they ask - havn't you got peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, &c? It would be a good investment for any practical man to grow the above on a large, extensive scale. I could make it pay well, but 95 per cent. of those who start into Horticultural pursuits are mere speculators that know nothing about the matter at all - or employ some man who has worked in the old country, in some garden belonging to Lord Fizzle, or the Duke of Noland, and they write and talk generally a lot of impracticable nonsense and trash - lead and misguide, and ruin everything they get in contact with.

In reference to the New York fruiterers and their per centage, they generally contrive to get about one half. We get what wo consider our fruit is worth, and leave them to get what they can by retail; we have no per-cent. agencies. Nectarines, peaches, apricots and plums, in oar American Orchard House, will pay. It seems to me that men are unable to step out of the old school-boy way - they practise the same old routine of "my father," or say, Mr. Somebody did it, consequently I must do it. There is too much of the practical and not enough originality. If Mr. Rivers has struck out an original feature in England, why should not we strike one here, that is better adapted for our wants, our climate and our necessities? If Mr. Rivers is satisfied with a peach in a pot with its dozen fruit, it will scarcely satisfy nor pay us in a commercial sense. If Mr. Rivers has span-roofed houses with pots holding scrubby sticks, we must have span-roofed houses with trees in rows, espalier, three or four feet, one row from the other, and we must have as much or more fruit on them as we used to have in our orchards some years ago.

Or we must train them under the glass as fans, and we must work our peaches, apricots, nectarines, etc, on plum stocks if they do cost a trifle more; and we must train our own trees from the bud; we must also plant the kinds that pay the best, and throw the great long nursery list away to the four winds. Noble, fine, handsome fruit must go into the COMMERCIAL orchard house. The object of a few days earlier amounts to nothing. When we have it, what is poor fruit worth? A peach with a large stone and an insipid bit of skin! All these things have to be guarded very closely, and I give them as suggestions. I see so much utility in this orchard house, so many ways of constructing for the required wants of the various kinds of fruit, that is requisite should be grown, that I could scribble for a month; but I will not punish you. [Pray punish away - we rather like it. - Ed.] C.