In an editorial note, on page 29 of this number, we stated that we had engaged a well-known and competent gentleman to aid us in our Architectural Department, and that we had hoped to receive a beautiful design in season for our January number, but had been disappointed. We are pleased to state that by delaying the last sheet a few days, we hare obtained the desired engraving, which forms the beautiful frontispiece. The architect is Alex. J. Davis, of New York.

WINYAH, The Residence of Col. R. Lathers, New Rochelle, N. Y.

I send you a short description of the plan of WINYAH, having selected the same for publication in the Horticulturist as exhibiting the popular style of Americanized Italian, in tower, turret, plant-cabinet, and veranda.

The execution of work on this house may be noted for its substantial character - brick, in hollow walls, with the New Haven stucco, in imitation of freestone, by Gill, whose cement is proved to be durable in many works at New Haven of more than twenty years' standing. By deafening the floors, and insulating the stairs, (by brick wall,) this mode of execution renders every species of building safely fire-proof; safely, if the roof timbers be so inclosed by a metal covering. and the floors in contact with cement, that fire could only char, without consuming. Had this been the mode of building in New York, (by no means original, but) as specified by me for the last twenty years, and laid before the Common Council of New York in 1834, the Harpers and their insurers had not suffered, nor would the great fire have occurred in 1835.

PRINCIPAL FLOOR.

The portal to Winyah is under a turret of 12 feet diameter, 60 feet high, sheltering the hall door, and giving valuable room above, beside commanding one of the most extensive views in Westchester, comprising Long Island sound, Hudson river palisades, New York city, and Staten Island.

The perspective view and plan will mainly explain themselves, and the dimensions may be learned from the scale. On the right of the hall, a few steps ascend to the dining-room, lifting the floor of the same so much above that of the library, parlor, and hall, that the kitchen below the dining-room may be wholly out of ground. A few steps connect the dining-room passage with the veranda; and an easy ascent leads to the chambers above, which are five in number beside the attic and wing-building rooms. In the latter there is a covered carriage-way for horses in waiting; (or the same might serve for a wood-house.) There is a spacious veranda both in front and rear, and the whole is raised high upon a terrace, adding much to the character of the house, and ensuring dry and useful room in the basement.

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Me. Hovey under the impression, as it seems to us, that nobody has taken the trouble to read his last volume, gives a summary of its leading articles in the opening number of this year. Among other notable performances, which he takes occasion to rejoice over, are his precious effusions on root-grafting. He says;

"Incidentally, in the early part of our last volume (XIX) we copied some remarks made at the Northwestern Fruit Growers' Convention, in regard to root-grafting, and subsequently gave our views in relation to its practice. These called forth what we suppose was intended as a reply from a contemporary. There was not one single fact brought forward to refute what we said, but only a string of words and wonderful facetiousness, -which we allow to pass for what they are worth. Our views of the system remain unchanged; that is, we consider root-grafting as generally practiced - and everybody who knows anything about it knows what that is - an injudicious mode - of economy we say nothing - of obtaining good orchard trees".

It seems to us quite superfluous in Mr. HOVEYo make this formal announcement that his views "remain unchanged." Nobody who knows him would expect such a thing. To say Mr.HOVEY"hchanged his views," would be about equal to saying that the leopard had changed his spots.

At the last meeting of the Northwestern Fruit Growers'Association the following resolution was passed:

"Resolved, That we are in favor of root-grafting as a principal mode of propagating the Apple".