A New York correspondent writes: "Just now I am having an interesting time with roses and strawberries. Have several acres of the latter and am testing some twenty varieties, and may send you something on them soon. I am also getting a great deal of pleasure from my vinery of foreign grapes. Have a lean-to 112 feet long - a portion erected this spring; some a year ago, and the first two years ago. Have twenty-seven vines - seventeen different varieties. My friends say that the prospect for some ten-inch bunches is good this year on the two-year vines. Peach trees are all loaded through Central New York this year. I have been thinning out for the past week, taking out about two-thirds".