I think it is high time for the public to know what a nurseryman is, and how a respectable nursery is conducted, as their regular and systematic way of pruning and transplanting, to insure success to the purchaser against those quack impostors that stick a thing in to grow as a stick and then sell it for gain, with all top and no bottom, the same as a well grown tree, to people that know no better than to buy for its fine top and low price.

I have found many such as the Country Gentleman and Mr. Panics describes among country people, with high-colored plates, etc., telling great tales about this and that, and where from, in my opinion that knew more about the properties of winning a dollar than either a tree or shrub. It makes one almost disgusted with his profession when such comes in his way. What is wanted, is a register of all the trade, such as Glenny, of London, publishes yearly in his Gar-dener's Almanac, or an association of nurserymen and seedsmen such as was formed some ten or twelve years ago in Scotland, when there was so much fraud, called the North British Association, for the protection of an honest man against a quack selling a counterfeit for a low price, which I believe was of great benefit to the public by getting good and genuine seeds, plants, Ac A Nueseryman.-Mt. Pleasant, C. W.