Mr. Horticulturist: - I have thought that some of your readers might be pleased to know that Tritonia Uvaria can be readily propagated from seed. In November, 1857, I received per mail, from Mr. Wm. Thompson, seedsman, Ipswich, England, a small packet, which he had just obtained from the Island of Guernsey, where this fine plant has become naturalized, along side of the charming Nerine Sarniensis. I immediately sowed some of them in a pot in which I had just Bet a Dutch bulb of Roman Narcissus for winter blooming. They came up promptly, and grew all winter in the parlor window, making two small leaves each, without interfering at all with the big bulb, which distinguished itself in a most satisfactory manner, as a subject well adapted to this kind of ornamentation. In the spring I tamed all together into the open garden border. The Narcissus leaves continued to grow strongly till the first of May, when they ripened off, leaving the young Tritonias to take care of themselves, as they best could, with very little attention from me; for then, the interest which has since been excited in this plant by frequent notices in almost all the Horticultural Journals, was not awakened.

M. Thompson having only remarked that it might be suited to the climate of Georgia, though neither it, nor the Guernsey Lily, did well in the open ground in England - or at least would not ripen seed there.

All the approach of frost in autumn, I lifted my young plants, potting thence in one 8-inch pot, and placed it in a cold frame, when they made such growth, and so filled the pot with their tufted, long, and rather coarse, yellow, fibrous roots,* that I shifted them singly into pots of the same size, and about the first of April I turned them into the open garden. They resist finely our sun and drought, and I look confidently to their flowering before summer is out - probably about in time with the tuberose. That they are approaching maturity I infer from noticing that some of them begin to throw up suckers. Some accounts ascribe to the flowering stem the height of a man, (5 or 6 feet) and robustness equal to that of the common Day Lily (He-merocallis fulva). But I shall be well content if mine attains the size and beauty of the plate in Bedouti's Liliacees' - about 3 feet.

This tan scarcely be called a bulboos plant I have a fine clump of Pampas. grass, which stood out last winter with only the slight protection of an old and ragged bast mat thrown over the top of it during the hardest weather; and I think it would have survived if quite unprotected, our winter having been milder than common. The tips of some of the leaves were killed back about half their length.

If is only within the last ten days that some of the stems have begun to start for the race of flowering, I can count now some six or seven sheaths which are pushing strongly above their fellows, and certainly are swelling notably, but if they ever attain the bamboo like stature stated in Loudon's Encyclopedia of Plants (2d supplement) which is generally held to be pretty-good Botanical authority, viz: 40 ft! - the metamorphosis must indeed be miraculous - as I thiuk Dr. Lindley says it it. Hitherto our Gama grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) is the biggest swell among our grasses, and at this moment stands considerably taller than the Pampas.

Enclosed please find a flower sprig of the Polygonum Teretifolium. Although brought to notice by Mr. Robert Nelson several years ago, very little attention has been paid to it; but a more lovely thing, in its way, is not likely to be discovered very soon in our woods. How it should have been overlooked so long, is a mystery to me. I fear it will prove rather intractable under cultivation, as any intermixture of common garden mould in the sand where one attempts to grow it, proves a deadly poison. Hence its scarcity, and the reason why I cannot now send you a specimen with foliage, which would give you a better idea of the plant. If you wish one for the examination of a botanical friend, I will endeavor to procure and send it to you. [We shall be glad to receive it. The flower is very remarkable'. - Ed.] M. A. W., Athens, Ga., July 22.

Correspondence #1

Rochester, New York.

Dear Horticulturist: - The lovers of your pages during years that are past and gone, may not object to reading a few hasty lines from this, your old residence, and now most certainly containing some of the best examples of horticultural progress. Consider me then shaking off the dust of Broadway on board the New World, that Great Eastern of the rivers, and dining next day in Albany, knocked about first on one side and then on the other elbow by ladies waiting on table in extra large crinolines; evidences that women are asserting their rights in these progressive quarters'. Thence follow to the garden nurseries of the wealthy city of Rochester, and into the grounds of Ellwanger & Barry, the latter the able conductor of your historical pages for so considerable a portion of your lengthening history.

A fanciful writer says: " Of some plants the seeds, as far as we can perceive, are living animalcules, with voluntary motion, till they pitch their tent upon a spot that they think will suit them; they then germinate, and change from animals toalgce." Now surely the pear seeds would seem to have voluntary motion, and to have pitched upon Rochester for their home, but for the fact that apples and plums have done the same; and to suppose that all the fruits could have assembled themselves, is going a little too far. We must believe, therefore, when we see acres of trees, nearly all loaded with fruit, that there has been some human ingenuity invoked to call them together. Such is the ease; superior culture in a suitable soil and a proper climate has arrayed the trees in a garb such as I never saw before. The pears assume here to my vision the same unaccountable increase of health, beauty, size, and productiveness, with fruit so large as not to be recognized or called by name, as surprised Mr. Barry at the exhibition at Burlington, Iowa, when he fairly admitted even he was at fault.

Now in Rochester, the Dutchess and the Bartlett assume an aspect and a color - 1 may as well call it the pear bloom, which is to me from a little farther soutb, - the greatest of surprises; and this bloom, or a similar tinge, pervades other fruits. The grape and the green gage plum have it in a very marked manner. Then the sizes and the health! Why, no orange-tree in the tropics is more beautiful than the loaded pear-trees of Ellwanger & Barry, and others of Rochester. A soil of the quality that the pear would select for itself, and a climate to suit it also, have made the product all that has been said of it. And yet, without the greatest attention in other orchards of the same vicinity, while the few pears that adorn the trees are larger than farther south, there is also evidence that the utmost culture is required. The accounts we have had are realized in several, but not in all cases; the mode of treatment is precisely what has been often promulgated. To insure success there is no other crop, not. even a spear of grass allowed to grow in the vicinity of either pear or plum-tree. Aeration of the root, mulching with stable manure in the fall, good trimming, and fine fruit is the result.

The plums are a perfect sight; the curculio is shaken off into sheets regularly every morning by a person appointed for the purpose; it requires but little time to do this, and the result is magnificent. The Green Gage, Pond's Seedling, Bowman's Magnum Bonum, Peter's Yellow Gage, Damascus Bed, and the Pruin plums, here hanging like ropes of onions, are examples of what care and attention will do.

Of the pear, the largest number budded is the Bartlett. The best bearers, where all seemed to be loaded, were probably the Duohesse D'Angouleme, Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Vicar, Beurre Clairgeau, and Hardy, Belle Lucrative and Virgalieu; and we noted as very fine, Beurre de Waterloo, Goubault, Calabasse monstreuse, Cramoisie, in beauty number one, though in quality second; Pratt, Livingston, Virgalieu, the Downing, named by Leroy; Wharton, new; Buffam, St. Ghislin, Consellier Bamwez, very large; Beurre Nantais, Baron de Mello, Beurre Superfin, very good; Tyson, Beurre D'Ainanlis, large and good; Sheldon; and the Church, known and esteemed for twenty years as one of the best.

The apples here are quite as successful as the pears; the trees are breaking down with the weight, and the dwarfs are especially beautiful. We noted as standards, Early Joe, Strawberry, and Jersey Sweeting, as highly ornamental; as fruitful, the Keswick Codling, Mother, Broadweil, Bed Astraohan, Baldwin, Gravensteiu, Genessee Chief, Bousselet de Stutt-gard, and Reine de Reinette. The dwarf apple-trees were also borne down with fruit, and of extreme beauty, the best for ornamental purposes being, perhaps, the Doucain, but all were handsome and nearly all fruitful.