We are greatly indebted to several friends and correspondents for kindly suggestions, 

 which we do not allow to pass iniheeded. We need advice greatly, and are not ashamed 

 to confess it. 



One hints that we have ruined the Horticulturist with Pears ; that many subscribers "are 

 sick of Pears;" and that a certain journal East has split all to pieces on the same rock, 

 Pears. We are alarmed, of course. In our simplicity we thought every body wanted to 

 know something about Pears. 



Another is sick of the French articles on the "Pruning and Management of the Peach," 

 because such information is " not adapted to this country." Here, again, we were in error. 

 AVe thought that even in this country, and among our subscribers, there were a few who 

 trained Peach trees on walls and trellises ; and that even if there were not, there were per- 

 sons engaged in the management of Peach trees in the open air, as standards, who might 

 derive some benefit from Lepere's very comijlete account of his system of propagating, 

 I)lanting, pruning, training, and treating the Peach tree, under all circumstances. 



The culture of the Peach in this country is, as a general thing, the very worst that can 

 be imagined. Everywhere we see skeleton orchards staring at us over the fences, like the 

 ghosts of trees that had died a premature death from cruel treatment. If cultivators would 

 study the nature and habits of the tree, as Lepere has done, and apply a mode of treat- 

 ment adapted to it, they would have trees that would do them honor, instead of being a 

 disgrace. We ask our friends who have thought it a waste of paper to reprint this article, 

 to read it over again, and see whether it be really so uninstructive as they imagine. 



We will thank our friends and readers to speak out plainly, and tell us wlien we err; but 

 we beg them to be cliaritable, and not to forget that we have several thousand readers to 

 provide for, and that among so many there must be some discontented. 



Errors Corrected.— We regretted to find several typographical errors in our last num- 

 ber, which were quite unnecessary — 



" Tropiolum^'' on page 111, should be Tropceolum. 



'-'•Leon le Clerc de ITaval^'''' on page 125, should be Leon le Clerc de Laval. 

 '■'■ JoseplLine de Moline" on page 135, should be Josepliine de Maline. 

 "Stove-room," on page 128, 6th line from the top, should be store-room. 



In- the February number of the Hortlculturht, page 92, you remark that the VrrgUia lutea is 

 allied to the Camellia, and the only native tree that is so. This is surely an oversight, as Vir- 

 gilia belongs to Leguminosfc, wliile Camellia belongs to Terustromiaeeae, which natural order is 

 represented in this country by two genera, having each two species; viz., Gordonia Lasianthus 

 and Pubescens, Stuartia Virginica and Pentagynia. H. W. T. — Hartford, Ct. 



The note in last number, page 133, will explain this. It was an omission of a line. 

 Gordonia was referred to and not Virgilia. 



I UAVK growing in a house for Grapes, a vine five years old. It has never shown any blos- 

 soms, and I think, from the appearance of the buds, that it will not this season. The vine is 

 over an inch and three-quarters in diameter. [What kind, and how managed? — Ed.] 



I would advise those about building graperies, to use stone posts. Red and Yellow Cedar 

 decayed so much in three years, that I had tlie house taken down and rebuilt. Cedar posts cost 

 cents, and stone ?;1.'25 each, with a hole drilled in the top end to receive an iron ' 

 the siUs. M. — Oneida, Co. 



