Our Hints on Grape Culture will keep you thoroughly posted in regard to covering your trellis. Read them carefully from the beginning. The leaf of Isabella you sent is covered with mildew. The other leaf sent looks as if it were entirely covered with soot on the upper side. The texture of the leaf seems to be but very little injured. We do not remember to have seen any thing like it before. We dislike rery much indeed to destroy a fine tree. We should wash the tree with a strong solution of soft soap. We know of nothing better. If that failed, we should cut the tree down. We hope these answers to your questions, though brief, will be of some service to you. - Ed.]

P. B. Mead, Esq., Dear Sir : - I have inclosed to you, by mail, the flower of a shrub which has greatly interested me, the name and botanical status of which I have been unable with certainty to determine. A friend, while at the Isle of "St. Kitts," in 1860, obtained this with other slips from a gentleman there, who had brought his plant from the Island of Madeira. My plant is about three feet high, and has fourteen flowers like the one sent you, of exquisite fragrance and beauty, which I have never in any plant seen excelled. The diameter of the flower sent you, when cut, was five and a half inches, length ten inches. They close during the day, and late in the evening are in their full glory. The bark of the plant is quite like that of the Ailantus. I would gladly learn its name, and have taken the liberty of asking your assistance. I will forward you a cutting if you desire it. Very respectfully your obedient servant, R. M. LYON.

Bath, N. Y., September 1st, 1862.

[The flower and the cutting came to our office while we were at home very ill. When we finally saw them they were too much shriveled to be identified. We think, however, your plant is a species of Brugmansia. Can you not send us another? - Ed].

Gentlemen : - Is there really any way of labeling trees or plants so as to preserve their names for any reasonable length of time, say for three or four years, if no longer? I have tried Patent Indelible Pencils to my great disgust. Your valuable suggestions on this point will be grateful to at least one of your subscribers in Baltimore.

[A cheap and durable label is a great desideratum. There are some good patent labels, but their cost prevents their general use; besides this, many of them must be purchased with the name already on them. If these points are no objection, Bliss's labels possess the other requisites to a considerable degree. A zinc label, written on with prepared ink, is both good and durable. It will last for many years if the ink is good. But the cheapest and most durable label of all is thin sheet lead; it will last an indefinite length of time. It is cut into narrow strips, about three inches long, stamped with a steel die, and rolled around a small branch of the tree to be labeled. It is most convenient to use figures and a memorandum book, in which the names are put down opposite the figures. A wooden label well painted, and written upon while the paint is fresh, will last a considerable time; so also a wooden label, if wetted, may be written upon with Dunn's pencil, and relied upon for two years at least; but wood in any form can not be regarded as a durable material. - Ed.]

Dear Mr. Editor : - Walking through one of the finest gardens in Northampton, I came across those beautiful specimens of Fuchsias, and I wondered if you would not admire them too; so I thought I would send you a bouquet from Yan-keeland. The lady who owns this pretty place calls the double Fuchsia the "Zouave," and it grows in platoons like, of six and eight. I presume you have some more scientific name. These may not compare with your varieties, but if they can't compete with you in the flower line, their trees will outstrip any thing this side of Eden. Such Elms! such Cedars ! such Oaks! and such "whispering Pines!" Why they are glorious in their magnificence!

By the way, have you any contributors for your Magazine in these parts 1 I saw something about a Horticultural gathering over some store, and should judge from that, Northampton was looking from under the trees into the subject. I have a Cedar which I have had growing (or standing rather) for over six years, and in all that time it has not increased in length or breadth, but "still lives!" Can you tell me what will start the tree from its lethargic state? Hoping you will drop me some lines telling me how you like the flowers and every thing you know will interest me, I remain yours truly, M. J. E.

Northampton, August 12th.

[The Fuchsias in your note were well pressed and dried. The Zouave would not be an inappropriate name for a Fuchsia producing its flowers in "platoons," and we must give your lady friend credit for a vivid imagination. The name of the plant, however, is Sir Colin Campbell, a warrior, though not a Zouave. We have some fine trees here; but as you say yours will "outstrip any thing this side of Eden," and we feel doubtful about claiming so much for ours, we must yield you the palm and avoid comparisons. We have no special contributors at Northampton, but would like to make you one, since you seem so alive to the beauties of Nature. You should have gone to that horticultural gathering, and made all the people subscribe to the Horticulturist; it is indispensable to all gatherings of the kind. They could not have refused a lady. Your Cedar, we suppose, is the common red Cedar, noted for its slow growth; it does pretty well when it " holds its own." We can not well advise you what to do without knowing the conditions under which it is growing. Suppose you mark a circle around it six feet in diameter, loosen up the soil, and keep it free from weeds for a couple of years. We should be very glad to write something to interest you.

We hope you may find something in the present number that will. - Ed].