A leading agricultural journal in the course of a recent article on Budding, says: "Several sorts of stocks are used for the Cherry - the Doucian, Mahaleb, and Paradise are the most suitable." It is almost incredible that any man who writes upon horticulture should make such a blunder. The Doucian and Paradise are stocks for the Apple, and no man since the creation has ever done such a thing as bud Cherries upon them.

Your correspondent, A. D. G., in your April number, by some means was greatly misinformed respecting several of the trees and plants of Florida. He strangely enough informs your readers that "in the latter part of February, and early in March, trees of all kinds put forth fresh leaves," " and the towering Magnolia (grandiflora) takes on new adornments of thick, glossy leaves, and large white flowers. Soon the scarlet blossoms of the Pomegranate appear, and the little brown flowers of the long trailing moss." Who, with any pretensions to understand such subjects, could have undertaken to state that the Magnolia grandiflora put forth new leaves and blossoms in February or March, or have imagined the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra), or the May Hickory, a very common variety of Cargo, even put on their spring garments before April, it is somewhat difficult to conceive. As to the brown flowers of the long moss (Tillandsia Usneoides), whether large or small, the existence of them is here unheard of. That plant is now just about to blossom' though I have not yet seen any of the flowers open.

The blossoms are very minute, but slightly conspicuous, of a yellowish pea-green, three-petaled, and pleasantly odorous when several of them are collected in a bouquet The whole plant is quite curious, and in many respects interesting. Seen through a microscope, the dull, gray uniformity of its color gives place to several shades, the most prominent of which is a delicate purple. It is entirely serial, depending solely on the atmosphere for subsistence. The seed vessel bears some resemblance to that of mustard, and to each minute seed is attached an egret of a delicate silken texture, by which it is supported in the air and borne about by the breeze.

Among the uses of this singular vegetable, one of the most common is to form the stuffing of mattresses - though for this purpose it may be regarded as a rather coarse material. It is extensively used, and probably far the greater number of beds in our fashionable hotels are formed of this material. Saddles are frequently stuffed with it It is eaten freely by cattle and sheep, and probably by some wild animals.

So far is the Magnolia grandiflora from flowering in February, or March either, that it is still in blossom while I write (June 3). Other varieties of that splendid genus, particularly the deciduous ones, in many if not most cases, put forth their flowers in April. One of these I have not seen described in any work on botany. The tree seldoms becomes very large, though too large to be designated as a shrub. The leaves are large, though less than those of the Macro-phylla, and in shape resemble the leaves of the aquatic plant called Sagattaria. Perhaps it might not improperly be named Magnolia •agittifolia, The leaves and flowers appear together, and both seem to wear an appearance of fragility and delicacy. At this time, the cone, if it may be so called, seems to have arrived at nearly its full size, and the whole tree presents an image of.

Permit me, before closing this rambling paper, to name to yon another production of this section which I have not seen except in this vicinity. It evidently is an Ash, yet unlike any other variety of that tree I have seen or seen described. No specimen that I have seen exceeded fifteen feet in height Its leaves are trifoliate, and like other species of the genus the plant is dioecious. The seeds are in clusters, something like umbels; and instead of a wing extending in one direction like a spatula, the wing encircles the seed in nearly a circle. When fully clothed with foliage and seed, the trees are very beautiful I imagine it would form a beautiful shrub for the lawn. Should you find no description and name for it, you may understand me as suggesting either Fraxinus frutex, or Fraxinus cyclocarpa. Should life and health be spared, I propose to forward you some of the seeds in autumn. A. B. Lawhence. - Laurel Hill, La.