The former readers of the Horticulturist will welcome back to its pages a favorite writer over the signature of Jeffreys, who used to criticize with an unsparing but just pen, editors and contributors, in a bold dashing kind of style that was always the cream of the number. We had understood that he had retired from public view, and was living the life of a hermit; from another source that he was married! from another that he was dead; a fourth thought he must be offended; but going on a pilgrimage purposely to discover his disease, whatever it might be, we found him as full of life and vigor as ever, managing his own affairs as such an able penman might be supposed to do, full of life and observation, and as merry as a cricket who had secured a good place in a good chimney corner. With some demurs, he agreed to enliven the horticultural circle again, and to-day he makes his return bow with a " critique on the January number," which has the old flavor about it. He is most welcome.