There seems to be an erroneous impression among farmers and others about to plant out an orchard, that the young trees that are offered by nurserymen are from suckers, and therefore will not come into bearing in a great while. A man said to me, a few days ago, that he was going to graft a Spy apple, but he would not take his scions from a young tree in the nursery, "for it would be so long coming into bearing." He was under wrong impressions, for I am sure that a scion put into a large tree will bring fruit in a very few years, while a young Spy tree is one of the longest coming into bearing of any of the varieties we cultivate. This leads me to what I wish to say:

The process of budding (and that of grafting, too,) is one of the finest ways of producing thrifty, straight and hardy trees. Nurserymen do not allow the suckers to grow on their stock. The scions used for budding are taken out of the tops of the trees in the nursery, and the buds are put into healthy trees of thrifty growth. In this way we produce trees from five to seven feet high at two or three years of age. A great many of the trees bear fruit in the nursery rows. I have picked this week from three year old trees perfectly formed fruit of five varieties of pears, one of cherry, and five of apples, showing that our way of making trees is not inclined to put the bearing off as many years as is supposed by some. - Cor. Country Gentleman.

Col. Hollister, late of Ohio, who emigrated to California several years ago, has now 700 acres of almond grove, and 60,000 trees in bearing, 100,000 orange, lemon, and olive trees. He owns 100,000 acres of land and has 150,000 cattle and sheep. He has bought twenty-six bushels of tea seed in Japan this year, and is going to grow the tea plants extensively.