Mr. Eben Wight, Corresponding Secretary, has laid us under obligations for a copy of the above report, and a schedule of prizes for 1857, which are all in money, and not in books or periodicals. The report has some interesting points. Of apples " promising well," they mention the Washington (a handsome autumn fruit) and the Polish; the Fameuse (always good), and the Ladies' Sweeting (keeping well till May), are recommended. The Foster Apple (ripe in August) is worthy of general cultivation. Of native pears, they name Sheldon, Lawrence, Brandy wine, Boston, Seckel, Tyson, Andrews, Lodge, Kingsessing, Howell, Oswego Beurre*, and Adams, as the desirable kinds.

The Committee indorses Simpson's novel mode of growing two crops of grapes in one year from the same vines which gave the crop in April. Mr. Simpson made a liberal display on the third Saturday of December, 1856. The vines had a period of rest from April to August, when bottom heat was applied, and a produce of about ten pounds to the vine was the result, and the vines were in the best possible condition. The Rebecca Grape is highly lauded as superior to the Diana, and Mr. E. Rodgers is said to have fruited a number of Hybrids fertilized from the Mammoth Globe by the pollen of the Chasselas and Black Hamburg, which are promising and hardy. Mr. Allen's Hybrids are favorably noticed, and great expectations are formed of them. The Union Grape, the Delaware, and the Curtis, are also recommended.

The High-Bush Blackberry has carried off the Boston premiums; it should be trained horizontally. Of Raspberries, the Knevett's Giant and Brincklg's Orange, are favorably reported on, and Mr. Hunnewell's Stanwiok Nectarines, commended. The Jenny Lind Strawberry took the $50 plate, and the Sir Harry, Admiral Dundas, and Sir Charles Napier, are among the new introductions the most desirable. The premiums offered this year will be found varied and liberal.

The Sequoia gigantna has been found subject to disease in Europe. The Flore des Serres says: "We add a word of reflection; that, in many cases, arborists give to conifers too substantial and rich a soil. The greater part of these trees succeed in places that would be very poor and sterile for any other vegetation, and it cannot be denied when their tissues are gorged with a sap richer in azote than belongs to their nature, they become by that means alone more subject to diseases. From another side, the mineralogical constitution of the soil represents an important character which ought not to be misunderstood; one tree is made for a calcareous, another for silicious soil; another for places where clay abounds. To decide upon this Sequoia gigantea is a great question, before placing it finally where it must remain during its long life. It may be arrived at by trying, and sacrificing to it some specimens." We call upon arborists for all their attention to this subject.