(S. Miller.) Your invention we sliall probably employ. The apples drawn h.ave been 

 described. 



(Dr. C. Clark, Covington, Indiana.) Tlie committee on the Mathews curculio remedy will 

 probably never report, because they have nothing to say, as we understand it. 



(A. N. Wyxie, Chesterville, S. C.) 1. All the family of junipers or cedars graft very readily 

 on each other. Tlie mode most usually employed is that called wedge-grafting. Evergreens 

 require more care under the operation than deciduous trees, and are operated on with the 

 use of glass, as, when fully exposed to the open air, they are with difficulty prevented from 

 drying up before a union takes place. In the open air, whip-grafting, with the end of the 

 scion stuck in a potato, sponge, bottle of water, or anything that would give out moisture, 

 would be the best mode of procedure. Half ripened wood must be employed for scions. 



2. The Sequoia (Wellingtonia) gigantea and California cypress, can be had in the Phila- 

 delphia and Rochester nurseries, at about two dollars each — small plants of couree. Cupressus 

 sempervirens we have seen in Philadelphia nurseries ; it is not considered hardy enough for 

 northern nursei'ymen. Your promised favors will be very welcome. 



(J. S., Lithgow.) — Dwarfing Apples. You will find much useful information in Barry'' s 

 Fruit Garden. All kinds of apples may be dwarfed on either the Paradise or Doucain 

 stocks — which are seldom raised in this country, but are for the most part imported from 

 France, where they are raised from seed. 



We have a larger pear yet for the " Country Gentleman," which will go far to fill the barrel 

 in which he "bottles daylight!" 



Saxonius will pardon us if we do not insert his little poem, which has merit ; but we are 

 crowded with matter of greater interest to our readers. 



The Culture of the Grape, and Wine Making. — By Eobert Buchanan. We are not sur- 

 prised to see a sixth edition of this very valuable and interesting manual, from the Cincin- 

 nati press. It is exactly what its purchaser wants, is full of facts, and not a word too much 

 will be found in its pages. It is a highly creditable and extremely useful work, which should 

 be in the hands of all who have a grape-vine or a strawberry bed, the latter fruit being 

 treated of in a supplement. Mr. Buchanan's name is favorably and inseparably coimected 

 with the enterprise of grape-growing in the West. 



J. J. Thomas will accept our thanks for a copy of his Annual Register of Rural Affairs, 

 published by Luther Tucker & Son, Albany. It is well done, and the best almanac for the 

 farmer, &c. The report of the New York Fruit Growers Society came too late. 



Canada. — We have to acknowledge many favors in the way of subscriptions and good 

 opinions from Canada, where there evidently exists a large class of tasteful lovers of Horti- 

 culture. We should be pleased to hear from some of them respecting their gardening, and 

 other experiences. 



Acknowledgments are due to several friends to whom private letters seemed more proper 

 than publicity, but there is one which deserves this kind of reply. Thaddeus Davids & Co., 

 manufacturing stationers, New York, have forwarded us a year's supply of both black and 

 indelible inks, sealing-wax, and extra scarlet congress wafers, which are all of the best 

 quality, and are rendered more valuable by the graceful manner in which they were pre- 

 They close their note, and a famous subscription list, thus : " With our best 

 complete success of the Horticulturist, and the hope that you will soon be enabl 



