In planting 500 trees for standards to constitute a market orchard, would you plant mostly Virgalieus, as some of my neighbors have done, or a proportion of other sorts, and what should these be? M. W. Western New-York.

The Virgalieu (or White Doyenne) as grown In western New-York, as well as in some other portions of the country, Is a fruit of transcendent merit, not only for Its floe quality, but for its great and early productiveness, and for the hardiness of the tree. But the scab and cracking, which renders it "an outcast, intolerable even to sight," as Kenrick is designates it, in some parts of the eastern states, has of late years appeared to some extent, both in western New York and Ohio; and it may therefore be somewhat hazardous to plant it exclusively. We think, under these circumstances, it would be best to make a selection of five or six of the best varieties, foremost of which, and in the largest quantity, we would place the Flemish Beauty, a free growing sort on pear stocks, and bearing fine crops of large, handsome, and excellent pears, ripening about the same time as the Virgalieu. The Onondaga, though not so good, is a large, handsome and productive variety, and would undoubtedly sell well. The Louise Bonne de Jersey, which grows so well on quince; produces so abundantly, that it should form a large proportion of a market orchard.

The Bartlett, for an early autumn sort, will not of course be forgotten; and the Vicar of Winkfleld, for a late market pear, is deservedly popular for its enormous crops. When the keeping and ripening of winter pears shall be better understood, it is not improbable that they may form a most important class for profitable cultivation, and among which the Easter Beurre for long keeping, will certainly be one of the best, the planter not forgetting that it must have a rich, warm, and highly cultivated soil.