"And lis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathe".

Bear Sir: - An old subscriber wishes you the best of success. Go it strong on pears and pear culture, and you will please me. I have a tale to unfold on that subject myself, (not a tale of woe,) but I shall bide my time, and if Jack Frost does not get drunk some night next spring, and stay out too late in the morning, about the last of April I shall see somewhat about pear trees, and perhaps you shall hear. This is the only blight I fear, and it is all that stands between me and success, in the culture of the dwarf pear.

Very respectively yours, J. T. C.

Dear Sir: - I am glad to see we are to have the dwarf pear question fairly considered. To my mind it is absurd to say that all the failures are the result of negligent culture, and that climate has nothing to do with it, when thousands of trees in the West, have been winter-killed within the last ten years. Truly yours, A. Huidekoper.

Editor of the Horticulturist: - South-western Georgia is perhaps the last place from which you would expect a "note" of horticultural interest, and you will therefore not be much disappointed should the following fall short in matter suitable for your journal. There are a few subjects, however, in your recent issues, on which I would like to comment. 1. As to fruit-tree labels. I have used for some time, simple roofing slate, lettered with white lead. Could you see one which I have just finished fur a row of twenty-five " Belle Lucrative," there would be no necessity for eulogium. They are neat, imperishable, ineffaceable, and legible at any "preconcerted" distance, say twenty feet. Farther, they can by no force of neglect, injure the tree; and are, I think, somewhat of a terror to our southern cotton-tail-i-cusis," or rabbit, (next to the little nigger, the insect most injurious to vegetation in this latitude).

In fact I cannot do without a slate label. As for the trouble, I will engage to print two, on an average, while my next neighbor is hunting out any given variety in his orchard.

The cost is a trifle, and the lettering a nice amusement for a rainy day, not involving much of what Dr. Johnson calls the "labor of excogitation".

2. As to dwarf pears.

Between Messrs. Allen and Van Buren, the soul of peardom is in no small tribulation.

On reading Mr. Van Buren's note, I instantly turned to an old Vol. So. Cultivator, containing the article which he now regrets and retracts. It is therein recommended to plant the dwarf pear so that the whole quince root shall be six inches below the surface - literal "pear-i-cide".

Shall I tell you that I was mislead by that very article, that I did so plant certain pears; or describe the true pomological impatience with which I waited for the fall to come, that I might - take them all up again? They are now planted like the others, the bud barely covered, which I take to be the proper "mean" between Mr. Van Buren's "extremes." Those lifted had not rotted, but are now shedding a ring of outer bark, where they were choked.

We would like to have more light on that subject, but certainly "quince" will throw out roots as readily at top as "bottom," and the pear will throw out roots if it sees a chance of quietly inearthing them.

3. As to failure among dwarf pears. Mr. Allen's picture has its photographic copies even here. But it seems to me that they are the result of a fixed conviction among our cultivators, that the pear and the potato (or other esculent) require exactly the same treatment, simultaneously conducted on the same piece of ground. The legitimate " conclusion "beiug a cry of "small potatoes," and "dwarfs a humbug!"

The soil may stand a double crop, but the year's supply of moisture 'in this climate, is not "enough for two." Then look at the cultivation required by an annual tuber, and fancy the feelings of a "dwarf," as the cold steel goes crushing through its fibres!

I am frequently asked, "what crop is best for an orchard?" and I don't think that I shall ever depart from, regret, or retract, the simple answer, "Fruit-Trees".

I have even discarded the southern "cow-pea," though it does signally ameliorate fruit lands; but it throws a higher shade than consists with the welfare of the base of a pyramid; and, like other crops, be they potatoes, pears or grass, or what not, it takes its lion-share of that not-to-be-divided moisture, which the air never fails to deposit in properly prepared earth.

I would say that land cannot be too deeply prepared for choice fruit, nor too highly cultivated, or cropped. I can show a perfectly healthy peach orchard six years old, managed exactly so, with stems as smooth as a nectarine. And Mr. Allen, I think, will envy the compliment paid by a young lady, to my dwarf pears - that "the twigs looked good enough to eat!" But jam satis. F. O. TlCKNOR, M. D.

Torch Hill, near Columbus, Ga.

Mr. Editor: - I noticed in the December number of Hovey's Magazine, p. 557, that a correspondent, Mr. Wilson Flagg, says: "The name of this genus, (the cornels,) is said to be derived from the Latin cornu. signifying horn-wood, on account of its great hardness." Was it not derived rather from the branching habit of the limbs, resembling the horns Of a stag? Or did both facts suggest the name? Amateur.

From cornu, a horn, from the hardness of the wood. Its value as a material for warlike instruments has been celebrated by Virgil - Bona hello cornus.

Dear Sir: - Will you be so kind as to present us with a drawing of the Union Village grape in some future number of the Horticulturist, there is considerable interest manifested in grape culture in this section; the Delaware, Rebecca, Diana, and Concord, are to be found in most good gardens here now, and I think the balance of the newer varieties of good grapes would soon be, if you will assist by illustrations of them whenever you think proper; the illustrations of the Delaware, Diana, Rebecca, and Canadian Chief, in the back numbers of the Horticulturist, have done good service; please to give us all the light you can on the subject; we feel that we need it all. Yours, most respectfully, John Lowe.

[We have a series of the new grapes in progress of illustration, which will appear soon. Ed].

Dear Sir: - As to our 54 varieties of grape vines; we have taken pains to secure every promising sort that comes to notice, as to those "ready to come out" as you say; hundreds and hundreds of seedlings are started, and each parent "crow will think bis own young is the whitest." We are constantly rejecting sorts as unworthy of cultivation, after trying and testing the plants and fruits.

You ask our views of vines:

In fact, where Catawba always ripens well, you may plant any sort you please, for all will ripen well - only some of the northern "foxes" are not worth planting where better will grow.

You ask about Child's Superb; it is a seedling, from Utica, N. Y. The propagators insist that it is a pure native, and hardy; but the lobing and serrating of the leaves, prove beyond dispute its foreign origin. It is probably an American seedling from foreign seeds. The bunches are large, the berries large and very good; it is prolific; it does beautifully as a wall grape, with slight protection; but does not need glass, (here,) although under glass it is magnificent. This leads us to be quite confident that south of where Catawba and Anna will ripen, the Child's Superb will be a capital out-of-door grape.

And about that Anna. We saw a few bunches here that were very fine; but all the clusters on the vine were not Our experience is that it is a very nice White Catawba, and that it would take a very good judge of grapes indeed, to detect (blindfold) the. difference between Anna and Cutawba, by taste. Very truly yours, C. P. Bissell & Salter.