A writer in the October number, Mr. Woodward, says, "The successful pursuit of landscape gardening, like all other liberal arts, depends upon a thorough understanding of results." Now, the cultivation of flowers is a liberal art, and what I want is a thorough understanding of results, and the mode of producing them, which I can not find in any book on gardening or flower culture, nor do I know where to purchase one. What I want is plain directions for ladies who cultivate their own flowers, showing when and how to set the slips or cuttings, how to make them take root, how and when to water, when to transplant, what soil or compost to put them in, when and how to pinch in, which require sun and which need to be shaded, when and how to give air, etc. One plant requires quite different treatment from another, and if any number require the same treatment, let them be grouped together. Let these directions be so plainly stated that no one can mistake the method. Remember that we are more practical than scientific, and wish you to write on common-place topics which educated gardeners know already.

We want you to write for your Ladies' Department of the Horticulturist, precisely what you talk to the ladies at the Brooklyn Horticultural Society's conversational meetings, in the reports of which I have taken great interest. Consider that but few of your readers can attend those meetings, and when you report that "Mr. Bridgeman spoke of the Gladioli, and how they had been so greatly improved during the past few years," that we are still in ignorance of the method. Your explanation of the mode of striking rose cuttings is worth a whole year's subscription to the Horticulturist, for I have tried it, and succeeded. The liberal ideas, too, of the professional gardeners at these meetings is worthy of notice. Mr. Fuller shows his good sense when he advises gardeners, "if they knew of a better way of growing a plant or flower, it was their duty to let the public know it;" and "if one gardener knows how to grow dahlias, or roses, or pinks better than any body else, let him tell his plan." That is the true liberal doctrine, and it will pay too.

Now, Mr. Editor, will you write an article for the readers of the Horticulturist on the culture and management of one flower at a time in your own concise and plain way, and follow this up in each number? Give us practical information. Your elaborate instructions how to plant and cultivate a grape vine, if applied to flowers, would produce many choice gems in our flower beds and parlor windows, and beget a great demand for choice new varieties. Perhaps this may be all very plain and simple to you, who have spent a lifetime in study and practice; but you must not expect us, who make your plum puddings on Thanksgiving day and Christmas, to know it all. Remember, too, that we actually have other domestic duties to perform every other day of the year, and that we are not all butterflies; that we cultivate flowers for recreation, because we love them, and not as a business. You may perhaps say, consult your gardener or florist; but you do not know that they are both old fogies, who are sure to teach me how-not-to-do-it: the one is afraid we shall no longer need him, the other fears we may raise all our own flowers, and need buy no more of him.

They are both short-sighted, as I should be more likely to need two gardeners, and to buy two or three new and choice plants where I now buy one, if they encouraged my taste. I read the whole of every number of your Horticulturist, including the advertisements, with much interest, and conclude by assuring you that if you comply with my request, the ladies will take care of your subscription list Frances Mart.

[Yes, the ladies have a right to ask the Horticulturist any thing they please, and we will do it. For instance, if one of them should ask us to turn into a polly-wog, into a pollywog we should turn incontinently; at least, they would expect it. Glad to hear you have a few house plants; what could be more appropriate for a lady? If you don't know all about them, we judge you are in a happy condition to learn; and that is just as it should be. All the girls, as well as you, might have magnificent Callas in bloom, and a good many other nice things, if they really followed our instructions. - Here we have the florist again selling flowers without telling how to take care of them: we have given him a good scolding elsewhere. - Well, how you do put the questions; thick and fast, like the drops in an April shower; but we can stand it; we are used to being out in the rain. - The beys in Brooklyn will ail be in love with you after such a meed of praise, which, we beg to say seriously, is just and well deserved. - Oh! Frances Mary, | how could you dash the romance out of that last sentence by adding the cruel words "subscription list." No matter, we'll give you the articles on Parlor Plants all the same; but we can not promise the first one till next month.

We were full before your letter came to hand. - Ed].

P. B. Mead, Esq. : Sir, - In regard to the proposition now pending before our Society, to allow twenty per cent. commission to members, or, in the words of the resolution, "Every member selling five annual tickets shall be entitled to his own gratis," for one, the thing struck me as very objectionable. I think it would deter many, who would otherwise canvass their friends, from doing so, and unduly stimulate others, until they would be voted bores, and so disgust people, that out of spite they would not subscribe, though they would like to do so. It was argued that what was every body's business was nobody's, and nobody attended to it. If the members will not use all proper means to influence additions without this "consideration," they are a very contemptible lot. I speak of the thing as it is now, and as we hope and have good prospect of making it; in the half-torpid condition in which it has slumbered until the past year, it could not be expected that people would trouble themselves about it; now that they can with a good face do so, I think it a pity this wet blanket should be thrown over them. The gardeners are stupid if they will not; for it is directly to their personal advantage to do so; they and the Society are, or should be, one, and their interests identical.

The more they can induce to join, and the more they interest them after they have done so, the more and better customers they will have.

Should think it would be more satisfactory to deal with those who knew what they wanted, and how to treat it after they got it, than with those entirely ignorant. There would be fewer complaints of plants and trees dying, (always the gardener's fault,) if the buyers knew better how to manage them. Perhaps some of the extra smart ones think this is good for trade, that they have to be replaced. I think they are mistaken. Success is necessary to the continuance of any thing; the unlucky ones will soon become discouraged, and cease buying.