There is another way of cultivating Pear trees on Quince stocks in gardens - a sort of rough, old-fashioned, careless method, just the sort of gardening that suits those who have neither time nor inclination to pinch, and prune, and train pyramids - and that is, to make them into bushes. This, although I have called it some ugly names, is with many Pears, and more particularly such as bear very large fruit, a very interesting mode of culture, particularly in gardens exposed to winds. To form these bushes, you have only to cut off the top of a tree, to within three feet of the ground, that has been formed into as much of the pyramidal shape as it will take - for such sorts as Beurre Diel, Beurre d'Amalis, Doyenne Boussock, Beurre Giffart, Beurre Langelier, Duehesse d'Orleans, Winter Nelis, Nouveau Poiteau, Triomphe de Jo-doigne, and many other good Pears, do not take the pyramidal form naturally, but they form fine bushes. All they require is to keep them from becoming crowded with wood, and to shorten their young shoots to within eight or ten inches of their base in August.

But my method of culture is still more simple, for my trees require little or no pruning, and the method will just suit mechanical gardeners, i. e., those lovers of a good Pear who do not wish to have the trouble to think whether a shoot is to be taken out or left in, but who can spare time and mind enough to direct their trees to be taken up and replanted - for I simply do this, i. e., about the first week in November a trench is dug around the tree, and it is lifted carefully with all the earth possible adhering to its roots, and then replanted in the same hole. If the soil be rich, it will require no assistance; but if it be poor, three or four shovelfuls of some light rich compost may be given to each tree. Some mulch on the surface around the tree will also do good. After two or three removals these Pear bushes become compact and sturdy in their growth, and their roots so matted that they lift with a ball like a Rhododendron, and bear fruit the season after removal just as if they had not been touched; the only effect perceptible is the moderate growth the trees make, bo that they are kept in a compact, bushlike form, easily protected from frost in spring by throwing a net or a sheet over them, and also from the ravages of birds in autumn.

By the way, has this biennial autumnal removal ever been tried as a remedy for your black blight, which I think I have read is brought on in some parts of your country by over-luxuriance? If not, pray try it. These Pear bushes require about the same room as full sized Gooseberry bushes.

Have I not read, in your pomological works, that with you the Apricot is difficult to cultivate in the open air? This has also always been the case in Devonshire, the mildest climate in England, owing to the trees becoming excited early in spring, and the blossoms becoming frosted. They now grow them in orchard-houses with great success. Can not you do likewise? They may be grown as bushes, or even half standards, planted in the borders or in large pots. If planted in the borders, and inclined to grow too rapidly, biennial removal will make all right.

It is quite refreshing to see the ardor with which pomological knowledge is sought in your country. It makes one quite curious and almost desirous to go over to you, only you have so much sunshine and so few clouds, so much frost and so little rain, that one would lack moisture in old age. Pomology in England is at a low ebb. There seems a sort of self-sufficiency in our best gardeners that quite keeps enterprise down; for they show the finest fruit in the world from the gardens of our lords and dukes, and then say, "What do you want more than this?" True enough, nothing can be finer; but then, to what a small class is it confined. Now I wish to see every cottager's garden full of good fruit trees. In your country, a large class of active wealthy men seem to enter into the practice of pomology with youthful vigor; and the results of your numerous and well-arranged meetings must be highly favorable to the health and wealth of your community, for the pursuit brings both. We seem here, as regards pomology, to be like an old English country gentleman living on his estate, who pooh-poohs I all active improvement because his garden gives him all he wants, and because he has fine Brown Beurre and Crassane Pears from his walls despises all new and hardy sorts.

I am sometimes inclined to think that I am considered to be a sort of half-wild enthusiast, because I take a warm interest in all that appertains to fruits, and am with others endeavoring to form a pomological society - the only one in England; and I think it very probable we shall not be able to carry out our idea, and I believe solely from a sort of John Bullish self-sufficiency which, as has happened in other matters, I trust will be cured by your activity shaming us into a like course.

There are a few, very few, good new Roses blooming this season. The Tea-scented Rose Gloire de Dijon is really a fine Rose, with a vigorous habit and flowers of great beauty, like those of Souvenir de la Malmaison with the fawn color of Safrano. Augusts Vacher is also a new fawn-colored Tea Rose, like Ophire (Noisette), and its flowers are, like that Rose, not regular in their shape. La Quintinie is a grand new Bourbon Rose with finely-shaped flowers of a rich crimson velvet. It is not, however, a vigorous grower - and this appears to me now a most essential quality; for, with Roses as with Pears, we must have only such varieties as form vigorous, healthy plants. In that favorite family, the Hybrid Perpetuals, Jules Margottin takes the first rank. It is like our old favorite Brennus, and as vigorous, with perpetual flowers, which it gives most freely all the autumn. Sir John Franklin and Gloire de la France are also two fine crimson Roses of first rate quality. Colonel du Rougemont is a large edition of Baronne Prevost - a grand Rose. Madam Damage is also a very good variety, resembling the latter in color and habit, with flowers not quite so large. There are many other new Roses sent out by Laffay, Robert, and others, but they are all fudge.

They are good and pretty enough, but not sufficiently distinct for English, and, I should think, American taste, as we require something more in a Rose or Pear than to be merely new.