Editor horticulturist In all the American books, I can And no mention of a first qualify hardy raspberry. In the several varieties recommended for cultivation, they are spoken of as requiring winter protection by bending down and covering with earth, which is a great labor, besides breaking many of the canes. Now I have had two varieties of red raspberry in cultivation for eight or ten years past; which are perfectly hardy, and have withstood every winter without shelter or protection. I never saw better bearers - the fruit is large, delicious in flavor, and the two together are a month (in open grounds) to six weeks In bearing, according to exposure. If located on the north side of a fence, they are longer in bearing, yet the south exposure will be earlier.

I pretend to no originality in, or invention of, these fruits. I obtained them from a garden in my neighborhood, which had been planted at great cost, by a gentleman of taste in such matters; the fruits, so far as 1 could learn, were "far fetched and dear bought." The owner dying, the ground was devoted to ether uses by his successor. The gardener who . sold them to me called one the Bed Prolific, the other the Red Antwerp; but I can find neither of them described in the pomologloal books, or nursery catalogues, and I am certain that neither of them is the tree Red Antwerp, which is not hardy. Mine grow much stronger, higher, and larger than the Bed Antwerps do in this vicinity. Hearing so much said about winter covering for the raspberry, I had them carefully bent down and covered one winter, and nearly ruined them by the process. Since then they have had no protection whatever. They withstand the cold of this latitude, 420 46' north, as well as the wild raspberry of the woods, or anything else - never musing a full crop, and my small plantation giving me several bushels every season. , They have never bean marketed till this summer, and having leased my farm-garden grounds to a Scotch gardener, he sends them to town, where they are pronounced by the fruit dealers the best they have had, although the true Red Antwerps, requiring winter protection, are sent in for sale.

Having seen frequent inquiries in the papers for hardy raspberries, and believing that the varieties I have so long cultivated comprise the most desirable qualities for popular culture, I have advised my gardener to offer a part of his young plants for sale, which will be seen in the advertisement accompanying this. I grow them together promiscuously in the rows, which I think is an advantage to their abundant bearing, and they are easily distinguished by the color and characterof their wood and fruit. They should be fairly cultivated in good ground, three to five canes in the hill, and cut down in the fall or spring to three or four feet in height, according to the strength of the canes. Tied at the top with a piece of twine, they need no additional support. Owing to their strong growth, I set the rows six feet apart, so as to use the place between them and four feet apart in the row. When first planting, I put but one cane in a hill, as that throws up plenty of suckers for the coming year. The "true" Red or Hudson River Antwerp, compared with mine, has proved a failure in this vicinity.

Yours, truly, Lewis F.allen.

Black Bock, N. Y., August, 1856.