Editor Horticulturist : I often read in your journal and others interesting articles by correspondents, but which lack much of the interest they should have, by not giving the residence or location of the author - for instance, "An Hour at Home," by John S. Reid, referring to success and failure of various grapes; " The Opinions of My Neighbors," by P. Amon, referring to many varieties of fruits.

Also, when inquiries are answered by the editor in a journal, and the inquiry not stated, the general reader is not, in most cases, informed by the answer.

I have for many years noticed the omissions referred to, and thought them quite important. - Very respectfully, a subscriber from 1846, T. G. Yeomans.

[The above from an old subscriber and a practically successful fruit-grower touches a point we have ourselves often desired to cover, but there are two or three things in the way to so doing. First - Some who ask questions and desire them to be answered, write at the same time desiring not to have their name appear; and while we endeavor to reply to all such personally by letter, occasionally a question comes which we deem pertinent to answer in our columns. Our readers, however, we think, will hold us blameless of copying "Idem," etc., from English journals and sending them out as original.

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There is with many an impression that whoever writes his views of the value of fruits or flowers for publication is public property, and therefore they can address him for all sorts of inquiries free of cost This is a growing error, and should be checked, because it deters many a capable man from offering his name and character to the public. We have before us now a letter from one of our correspondents saying that he "has at one mail received seven letters asking for lists, and information of where to obtain, etc.," one man even asking for "a complete record of all the best of apples, and especially for those suited to Tennessee".

All such inquiries, we think, should be addressed to the editor of the journal from whence they have sprung, and he will see to their being answered; or letters may be addressed to writers and sent to the care of the editor of the journal in which their articles appeared, when they will of course be duly forwarded].

Monmouth, April 14 ,1868.

Mr. Editor - Dear Sir: I feel inclined to say a few words to some of the contributors to the columns of the Horticulturist, and to request them to be a little more specific in their descriptions of certain processes which they describe. For instance, at the meeting of the Lake Shore Grape-Growers' Society, as given in a late number of the Horticulturist, it is said: "Mr. Saxton had kept his grapes in a cool room - in a dry cellar," etc. They kept well, and would have kept until April.

Now, the way to do this is what I greatly desire to know. But he has given us no directions about packing them, or how to protect them from freezing in a cold room in winter. From all that is said on the subject by the different members of the Society, I am unable to understand how to do it. I confess I am a novice in the business, and I read the papers and periodicals to learn how to do properly everything connected with grape-growing. And when I read the communications of men who know all about it, and they fail to give all the manipulations necessary to success by a beginner, I feel disappointed, and throw down the paper with disgust. A year or so ago, Mr. Griffith, of Penn., told us of his wonderful success in growing the Delaware and other hard-wooded grapevines in the open air; but he failed to tell us how to do it. What benefit is it" to the common, unlearned readers of your excellent paper to read of the great success of scientific men in fruit-growing, if they do not tell us common people how to do it ? It is like presenting a loaf of bread to a starving man, yet placing it beyond his reach. I am delighted with the Horticulturist, and with a little reform in the direction indicated above, my joy will be full.

J. F.