In looking'over the December number of the Horticulturist, I saw an article - written by Cockburn and Brown, of Montreal - speaking of the apple-tree being killed down; they say it is a thing almost unknown with them. I find it one of the worst things to contend with. Losing the terminal bud causes a crook at every year's growth, which injures the looks of our trees very much. And another thing we have to contend with - the heaving up of trees in the spring. In the nursery row we can manage them very well, by furrowing up in the fall, but seedlings are difficult to manage. I am aware that draining has a great deal to do with it. Perhaps Mr. Brown, or some other gentleman, will give some information, through the Horticulturist, touching this matter. He speaks rather unfavorably of the Early Harvest and the Baldwin. I am happy to say, that those two famous apples are the most hardy we have here on the northern shores of Lake Ontario; as for the Fameuse and St. Lawrence, they are very productive; Burrasso, rather a poor keeper; Keswick Codlin, very hardy, and comes into bearing first of all; Hawthorndon, a great bearer; Alexander, a fine grower; Read Astrachan, promises well; R. I. Greening, a straggling grower, but makes a fine tree; Ribston Pippin, a fine grower, and one of our most profitable apples; Northern Spy, I could not recommend for general cultivation; Fall Pippin, Spice Sweet, Talman Sweet, and Gravenstein, are among our very best apples.

Plums. We have a difficulty in budding the stock on account of the blight, and we have the black rot to contend with, and the little Turk, the curculio.

Cherries suffered very much by the hard winter or spring, especially the Heart kinds.

B. Loses, Nurseryman, Cobourg, Canada West.