The same spring I interspersed among grape trellises small bundles of hay, saturated with coal-tar, hoping its offensive odor would deter the curculio from stinging the fruit. Nevertheless, when ripe, it proved to have been stung to some extent; but this, I thought, occurred before the use of the tar. In that respect it may have been of service. But in applying the tarred bundles some branches were touched more or less with the fluid. Those branches are now all dead.

A friend's experience is this: On setting out a considerable number of young apple-trees he used coal-tar to prevent rabbits and mice from barking them the succeeding winter. To a few he applied the tar directly. These were all killed, not by rabbits or mice, but by the.tar. Around the remainder be sprinkled the tar upon straw, leaves, Xetc, without allowing it to come in contact with the tree. These were not injured by the preventive, which had the desired effect of keeping off the expected depredators.

Another friend informs me of a case which proves conclusively the extraordinary power to kill vegetation possessed by coal tar. It was applied to a row of some 25 or 30 maple trees, from six inches to one foot in diameter, to prevent all possibility of injury from cattle and horses. The majority died the first year. The rest lingered, ugly and moribund, a few years, and died as the first had done, from an over-dose of medicine given with as much ignorance as kindness.

Your readers would be much benefited if you could fill them with prejudice and hostility to , this pernicious substance, or teach them to use it to kill and not to save. It might be usefully applied, for instance, in killing weeds in gardens; or grass, where it obstinately springs up between the bricks in sidewalks, etc., etc.

I will use this occasion to call attention to a strange and unfortunate omission, as I take it to be, in Downing on the "Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America," and another in the work of J. T. Thomas-1* The American Fruit Culturist".

I have never tasted the Belle de Choisy Cherry; but all my reading and conversation on the subject of cherries tends to convince me that it is justly entitled to the very first rank among cherries, and is perhaps without a superior. And yet in Downing's work, edition 1859, revised by Charles Downing, I can find no description of that fruit; I applied for information where I had the best reason to expect it, and found none. How is this to be accounted for ?

Again: the Lawrence Pear, if I mistake not, has, in a few years, so grown upon public esteem as to be regarded at least as among the very best of winter pears, if not itself the best of all, taking into account the beauty, thriftiness, and hardiness of the tree, as well as the size, beauty, and excellence of the fruit. In all these respects, except possibly flavor, it takes the lead, as I suppose, of the Winter Nelis, which has the rank among winter pears that the Seckel has among autumn pears. I esteem friend Thomas's opinion very highly, because, with all his experience, I believe he is a Quaker, and I have never known a Quaker who was unreliable. In his last pronundamenio on Fruits (the edition of 1856, the last I could procure) he has nothing to say of the Lawrence Pear, "good, bad, or indifferent;" but gives only an outline drawing.

These books are the best to be had by American readers; but, with such omissions, are defective, whether they are intentional or not. T. £. M.

Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 9, 1860.

[We can assure T. E. M. that we mean to try to make the Horticulturist a truly practical and useful magazine; one of which its readers shall in all respects be proud. We shall always find a place for just such facts as he sends us. His experiments with coal tar agree with some others we are cognizant of. Unless diluted, or applied as in the case of his friend, it is undoubtedly more fatal than the disease to cure which it is applied. What kind of coal tar did you use 1 We agree with T. E. M. in regard to the omission of the cherry and the Lawrence Pear. The latter we esteem one of the best and most valuable Pears we have. We cannot account for the omission of these fruits. The gentlemen concerned must do it themselves. - Ed].

To the Editor of the Horticultural:

In the April number of the last volume I contributed an article on the culture of the Grape for wine-making, in which I stated that we could show vines that had not been stumped in, which had been bearing heavy crops, and promised to do so again. I can now give you the result. One lot of vines grew on 2756.25 square feet, and gave 100 gallons of wine, which will make about 1500 gallons to the acre. The other lots trimmed in the same manner yielded at the same rate. About six miles north of this there is a range of 6late hills on which Mr. Joshua Emmert planted two acres in Isabella and Catawba vines. Some were trained on trellises and some on stakes, and he made 600 gallons. Those on trellises were better colored and first ripe. These vines are four years old, and had they been all trained on trellises, and been suffered to have more wood, they would have exceeded this yield. Perhaps I ought to say that the first-named lot was grown by my brother. So you can see, sir, that it is not necessary to go farther than this county for the best wine-making country in the world. There was no trenching or extraordinary culture applied.

I think I can hear you say, Well, I wonder if they know what to do with the juice, after they have it? Just wait a little: I will send you some.

Hagerstowm, Md. John H. Hayser.

[We should like to know where some of that juice goes to, and so we wait. - Ed].

To the Editor of the Horticulturist:

Under the head of the "Editor's Table/' in the first number of the Horticulturist of this volume, is an article headed "How to Cook Locusts," remarking that u During the present year we believe the Locusts are again to make their appearance." The receipt for" cooking" is taken from Ellis's Madagascar.