A correspondent of Hearth and Home states that the country near Wilmington, N. C, is becoming filled up with fine truck farms. One truck farm in particular is noticeable for its size.

Hogg, Cannon & Co., have 15 acres in asparagus; 25 in strawberries; 100 in peaches ; 170 in pears ; 180 in Concord grapes: 16 in Madeira: 16 in Clinton ; 80 in Hartford; 70 in Mist; and 85 in Scapperncmg. Another farm belonging to Messrs. Willard, has 40 acres in peas and cucumbers, and send forward 40 to 50 bushels per day. Another farm has 100 acres in peaches; 80 in grapes; 28 in strawberries; 10 in peas ; besides a large area in peanuts, potatoes, etc. The general testimony is, that owing to sharp competitors from Norfolk, and the shortness of the picking season, the business is very risky and uncertain. The county is better suited to sweet potatoes, which can be grown with the greatest ease. The tomato does not do well as a market crop, neither grows as well as farther north; the intense heat seeming to interfere with successful transportation. The peach crop near Wilmington, is not considered certain, owing to some climatic cause. The Concord grape is a general favorite. The Hartford Prolific does not bear the long railroad transportation. The Mist grape is a hybrid of the Scuppernong, and a bunch grape, has the hardiness of the former with vastly more saccharine matter.

Its juice makes a heavy port, and it is thought that it will yet prove the great wine grape of the south; good wine has been made from it; also from the Concord and Scuppernoug mixed together.

The truck farmers think that with all these risks, the business is still more profitable than cotton or corn; and with land at five to ten dollars per acre, it is very easy to make them pay their way. The great want now is good and regular water communication to New York.