It would be as impossible to pack away in this number all the favors of correspondents as to inclose the entire wardrobe, bonnets and all, of a large family going to " the Springs" in a pair of old-fashioned saddlebags I We ask a little indulgence; meantime we "cram" a little to gain space. - The Gardener's Chronicle asserts that it is not necessary to force peas into bearing to get the best pea soup; the leaves make as good or better puree than the green peas themselves. - All accounts agree in stating that orchids have generally been subjected to too much heat; a few require this, but a large proportion are natives of climates where the thermometer falls below zero; as commonly at 30 feet as at 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. By thus forcing the plants beyond nature, the luxurious vegetation soon perishes. - A Bee-Keeper's Guide recommends three hard-named plants as affording good feeding for the bees. A correspondent says none of these can be found out of hothouses, and recommends that the cottage bee-keepers should live in "Cottages ornes." - The Gardener's Chronicle speaks well of Professor Fisk's entomological researches in New York. - Calceolarias, as exhibition plants, are losing ground abroad, while Gloxinias have made a decided advance.

Ferns are the fashion, and plants remarkable for fine foliage are coming into vogue. - TheCyane pine-apples are in much favor, and the Stockwood Golden Hamburgh Grape, figured in the February number, all admit to be an acquisition. - The Ugenia Ugni has ripened its fruit well in England, and seems destined to become an important plant; when the fruit is perfectly ripe, the flavor bears a close resemblance to a good pine-apple; "a rich aromatic and indescribable flavor, being something between that of a good Fine and the Hautboy Strawberry, and even in gathering this, rich odor is left on the fingers." - A grower of Camellias who wishes large and perfect flowers will carefully thin to one bud at the point of each shoot. - The Pampas Grass introduced into England attains the height of ten feet, with spikes of silvery feathers sparkling in the sunshine; it is pronounced "a noble ornamental hardy plant for a lawn, with handsome drooping foliage." - Thyrsacanthus rutilans is a favorite, with its pendent racemes of scarlet blossoms. - An instrument for pruning trees is announced; it elongates the handle or shank of the chisel and slips it loosely into a hole made in the extremity of the pole; if the chisel is now driven into the limb, it sticks fast, and allows the pole to be drawn back a little, and thrust forward again against the chisel, with the same effect as a mallet; the end of the pole is furnished with a thimble to prevent it from slipping. - The Southern Cultivator for January has a long article on Fish and Fish-ponds, by Dr. Bachman. The propagation of fish is a most important subject, destined to prove of immense value, and but just now begins to attract attention. - Stewed lettuce, with gravy and white sauce, says Chambers, is a dish for an epicure, and the roots of celery, generally thrown away, make a princely vegetable when boiled. - At the Horticultural Society's sale at Chiswick, a Laelia superbeum brought a hundred and fifty, and a rare orchid three hundred and twenty-five dollars; the latter was purchased by the Duke of Devonshire. - The Imperial Agricultural Society Of Paris has been trying to discover why seeds, apparently all alike, do not germinate all at the same time.

The conclusion is that the latest are so tightly inclosed in their envelope, as to prevent or check the penetration of moisture, and they are now inquiring whether the tardy seeds are the heaviest or the lightest, and whether they are obtained from one part of a plant more than another. - A French savant, M. Basset, says, that the virtues of beet-root are not half appreciated; that it is far more profitable than grass in the feeding of cattle, and contains such a variety of chemical products as to make it better worth cultivation than agriculturists generally believe. - The Belgian government offers a prize of two thousand dollars to any one who will discover a way to make starch for manufacturing purposes, from a non-alimentary substance. Enormous quantities of flour are used in the cotton manufacture alone. - M. Coste was instructed, last year, to stock the lake in the Bois de Boulogne with fish, when 50,000 fry of various kinds of trout were thrown in. As nearly the whole of these have lived, and many of them are from five to six inches long, reproduction will soon commence, and we shall probably learn that Paris is well supplied. - Professor Way is teaching the English how to economize the ammonia of the atmosphere; it is to take advantage of this manure by means of drainage, which promotes the equal flow of rain-water through, instead of over the soil; by deep cultivation and thorough pulverization of the land, which brings every part of it into contact with the air.

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The spores of some of the fungi are said to be omnipresent, and so numerous are they, that Fries calculated'more than 10,000,000 to be present in a single individual of the Lyooperdon of large size. Bauer estimated that 7,840,000, not of the sporules, but of the individual plants themselves, belonging to the common smut - the Urego Segetum - would be required to cover a square inch. Dr. Daubeny, of England, and Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, have written papers of much research, to prove that fungi are the cause of cholera and numerous diseases. - Some species of lichens are extensively collected, to make dye-stuffs; oudbear, a well-known article of commerce, is prepared from lichens collected by the: