Chestertown, Kent Co., Md., June 11,1867. Messrs. Editors: We have been haying a very cold, backward spring, and everything in the garden is behind its season. Speak a good word for McLean's Little Gem Pea; we have been eating it now several days, and I find it the most delicious pea I ever tasted. The vines are about fourteen inches high, and are a complete mass of peas, which in flavor are fully equal to the Champion of England, and without the tough skin of that variety. Keyes Early Prolific Tomato, from seed received from Hovey & Co., promises well. The vines are remarkably stocky and vigorous, and seem to form a stout, low bush rather than vine; leaves as broad as one's hand; no fruit ripe yet, but well set with large clusters. The Dwarf Erfurt Cauliflower promises exceedingly well. Strawberries nearly done; Agriculturist and Russell's Prolific ahead of anything tried.

The peach crop is the staple in this section, and the prospect is good for a fair, though not large crop. One gentleman in this county sold last year over $30,000 worth of peaches from six thousand trees, at a profit of $27,000. Many persons have orchards of from ten to twenty thousand trees, and several of thirty thousand; also one or two eighty thousand. More peach trees have been planted this spring than for some years. One nursery agent informs me that he sold $11,000 worth of peach-trees alone in this county, and he is but one of many. Grapes and pears are being largely planted.

We have a fine soil and good climate, and ought to be able to compete with any section. Some time, when business presses less, I may write you more from this section, as the Eastern Shore of Maryland seems to be almost a terra incognita at the North. Yours, etc., W. P. Massey.

Correspondence #1

Messrs. Woodward : The following notes are the result of this season's experience with a few varieties of strawberries :

Philadelphia, - This variety was the first to ripen, is of good quality, fine scarlet color, good size, productive, and a very vigorous grower, and although not so great a bearer as Wilson's Albany, I think it the best early variety yet introduced.

Correspondence #2

E. S. B., of Broome County, N. Y., asks, "What is the peculiar excellence of the Bronze Turkey? how heavy do they get?"

First. They are more hardy, easier to raise; they do not roam so much as the common turkey; they are double, treble, and sometimes quadruple the size of the common, and are also more tender in flesh, besides being a much finer flavored bird for the table.

We have seen turkeys that weighed upward of 40 lbs., and know of a number that have weighed over 50 lbs. Andrew Johnson had a present of an old gobbler for his New Year's dinner that dressed over 50 lbs. We own a gobbler, seven months old, weighing 25 lbs,, and a hen turkey weighing 22i lbs.