Dear Horticulturist: Knowing that you feel an interest as well as many of your readers, in all that is lovely to the eyes, pleaeant to the senses, and refreshing to the various wants of man, I hasten to try to bring some of our sweets and beauties to your notice, although in a rough and rude manner. We have a difference of dispute in this county (Cherokee) of one month in the spring, so that, when I left peas in bloom at Murphy, on the 10th of April, I found snow on the mountain*, in many places to the depth of from two to three feet; and, on the 12th of April, in some sheltered coves, I found the Claytonia Virginica just opening its blossoms to cheer the eye of man.

The scenery in the mountains is grand and picturesque, combining many of the features of Switzerland, with a summer climate as beautiful as that of Italy, and occupying a neutral ground, both mountains-and valleys, between the malaria and fevers the South, and the consumption and rheumatism of the North - a climate where the lowest extreme of last winter failed to sink the mercury more than three degrees below zero, and the extreme heat of the summer does not often exceed 96°, and where, when our railroads are completed, the citizens of Cincinnati and New Orleans can meet the citizens of Charleston, and enjoy a picnic, and almost return home the same day. This section of country is yet quite new, and the forests are as yet unbroken for many miles in extent, affording a safe retreat for the panther, bear, wolf, and deer, which as yet furnish meat for the few red men that remain among us, and the adventurous hunter or squatter. The flora of this section, has as yet been almost entirely neglected, and I find many rare plants, some of which are entirely new to me. The Kalmia latifolia is now (June 10) in full bloom, and, in one place, the side of the mountain is a complete mass of the bloom of McDowell's Rhododendron, but it will be still more beautiful in a week more.

The ferns and lichens embrace quite a variety, some of which are entirely new, or undescribed by botanists, so that here a wide field is open for investigation-There is here, in the mountains, a variety of blackberry, which, I think, will rival the New Rochelle, or any other known variety. It is quite thornless, and is now just in bloom; the canes are strong growers, and very productive when the cattle do not eat them up, which they are quite apt to when they can get at them. The fruit I have not seen, but am told that it varies from one and a half to two inches in length, and one inch in diameter; seeds quite small in large pulp, and very sweet; so that it will be a good acquisition to ail of our gardens.

We have also a variety of red raspberry that is new to me, and, in some respects, resembles what is called thimbleberry in Northeastern New York and Canada, but differs from it in the form and color of the fruit. The canes are large, and branch-ivg flowers of a pinkish color, but not very profuse, and the bark has a ropisb appearance; fruit, light fed, and very large, frequently on inch, or an inch and a quarter in diameter, add very delicious.

Strawberries hare been quite plentiful; they commenced ripening about the first of May, and continued with us about three weeks; we as yet hare none of the cultivated varieties amongst us, but they will succeed, and this section wilt eventually compete in the markets of Charleston and Cincinnati, in almost every variety of fruit The cold of last winter has not affected our fruit crop in the least, injuriously, and now our peach and apple-trees are groaning beneath their growing loads of fruit.

We have some good collections of apples, thanks to the exertions of Mr. McDowel and others, but the field of pear culture is, in this county, untried, and a few of us are uniting to try some varieties of pear on quince as well as standards; also cherries and plums. And we would consider it quite a favor if you would recommend a half-dozen of each that would be suitable for our climate, including dwarfs and standards. We hare a large variety of wild grapes, some of which, I think, will prove worthy of cultivation, especially one variety of white summer grape, which, however, is quite scarce. As regards the size of grape-vines, we can compete with almost any place, as one, that is known as the big grape-vine, measures three feet in circumference, and spreads majestically over a number of the giants of the forest, binding their crowns together in one luxuriant mass of foliage.