This old-fashioned and by no means despicable beverage, is thus made: Use four pounds of honey to every gallon of water; if a dry mead, only three pounds. Boil gently for an hour, skimming carefully; cool until milk-warm (75°), in an open tub. If four gal-lona are made, add half a tea-cupful of yeast spread upon a toast. In two or three days the fermentation will cease; then barrel and treat like other home-made wine. If made in September, it should be bright by the end of March; it may then be racked off into a clean cask, and bunged down again. By September, it will be fit for bottling. It is useless to hope for good mead merely from refuse honey, or the washings of the combs.

(Isaac Dillin, Zanesville, O.). We think your difficulty in the names of the apples sent be cleared up, by leaving out "American," in your Golden. Russet, your specimens of which were very fine, and naming the other "American Golden Russet," or Little Pearmain, one of its synonymes. The "Sweet Paradise" apple, is unknown here, and we should not value it very highly. The "Stookdale Sweeting" bakes well; we know of nothing approximating to it.

(H. A. Terrt, Crescent City, Iowa). The seed pods yon sent are those of the bladder-nut, Staphylea trifoliata, widely spread over most of the Northern, Middle, and Southern States, and a valuable garden shrub or small tree.

(A. A. Hull, Forest Hill.) 1. There is danger of your trees being injured by mice. Consult the Volumes of the Horticulturist, by index. 2. We esteem it a barbarous custom to whitewash trees as a rule. 3. Sow hickory-nuts as soon as gathered, if there is no danger from vermin; if there is, defer it till February. Deposit the seed in drills two feet apart, the seeds at from three to Biz inches apart. Shorten the tap-root once a year; out the head of the tree entirely off after transplantation, and before the sap begins to rise, leaving only a main stem; dress the wound, and they will throw out shoots of great vigor the first year, and these being thinned out or rubbed off, the remainder soon form a head.

(James Jacksok, Boston). We do not consider the Concord Grape equal in quality to the Isabella; unless it be that it ripens better at the North, it has not equal merit. It proved very fozy here.