Mr. A. Q. Hauford wrote us in June from Waukesha, Wisconsin, but a gloomy report of the prospects of fruit in that region. The spring opened unusually early and expectations were raised for a beautiful crop, but late frosts destroyed much in the blossom; this was succeeded by severe frosts that cut off the greater part of what was left. Mr. H. reports very favorably of the Early Purple Guigne Cherry, as an early and constant bearer.

Lucy Fitch's Seedling Strawberry is declared by a competent witness who writes from South Bend, Indiana, to be a four fold better bearer than Hovey's Seeding, Early Scarlet, Burr's New Pine, or any other sort he has tried. If it suit your soil and climate, well and good.

The Seventeen Year Locusts appeared in vast numbers in parts of Ohio in June last doing great damage.

Hamahelis Virginica has been met with on the Neshamony Greek, near Doylestown Pa. twenty-five feet in height and with a trunk a few inches from three feet in circumference. It was growing in the bed of a creek, amongst rooks and large loose stones. Have any of our botanists seen it of this size ?