Zenas.- West Brighton, III.

The Passe Colmar is one of those Pears to which a score of synonyms have been given. The word Pane is of various significations in French; in this case it appears to indicate a superiority to the old Colmar, once a popular variety all over Europe. We take this to be the true nomenclature. We have Pane tardive, a very late Pear, in the same way. Surpass in English would have the same meaning.

In this climate, where winter may be said to "linger in the lap of spring" till almost summer, there is hardly time, without extra help, which every one is not able to have, or which can not always be got of the kind wanted to perform all the operations accessary to a complete garden of flowers, fruit, and vegetables. I would like to know, if many things, such as sowing seeds in pots, planting of summer flowers, bulbs and tubers - Gladiolus, Dahlias, and the like, and many other things of a kindred nature, may not be done at any time after winter sets in, and without much risk, provided the pots are kept in a cool dark cellar until a hot-bed or the open ground is ready to receive thorn. (1).

As I desire to set out some Roses in spring, I would like also to know the names of a dozen or so of most hardy ever-blooming kinds, which will stand our winter with least protection, and give me the most constant bloom. I do not care about the size or kind of bush, or even if it dies to the ground in winter, provided it will come up again in spring and give me buds and blossoms for boquets in summer. (2).

What kinds of tender Roses, such as must be taken up in fall and kept in cellar in winter from frost, tor the front of a border, or elsewhere, will give me the most constant and various bloom with the ordinary cultivation a general flower border receives in a tolerably well kept garden. (8).

I take the liberty of asking these questions, believing your replies will give others information as well as myself. A Subscriber.-Utica, N. Y.

(1.) We cannot venture to advise much to be done in this way, because many buds and bulbs are very easily injured by moisture when placed in the earth and kept dormant As a general thing, it is better not to pot or plant until heat sufficient for vegetation can be given. Considerable may be done in the way of forwarding annuals, bulbs, &., in frames during the early spring, so as to bring them into bloom in the open ground at an early period of the season. Dahlias should never be planted before the first of June, or thereabouts.

(2.) A dozen of the best hardy perpetual Roses, free growers and good bloomers - Baron Pre-vost, Baron Hallez, Duchesse de Nemours, Geant des Batailles, La Reine, Marquise Boccella, Madame Lamoriciere, Madame Laffay, Pius IX, Caroline de Sansal, Victoria, and William Jesse.

(8.) Bourbons - such as Souvenir Malmaison, Leveson Gower, Hermosa, Mrs. Bosanquet, and Jupiter.

Noisettes

Such as Cloth of Gold, Amie Vibert, Solfatare, Caroline Marinesse, and Fellemberg.

Teas

Bougere, Lady Warrender, La Pactole, Devoniensis, Souvenir d'un ami, etc.

Bengals

White Daily, Cets, Sanguinea, Madame Brson.

Here have I been reading your Magazine from the first number, and have never dropped a word of acknowledge-ment Republics, they say, are ungrateful. Can it be that the spirit of the mass so infects the minute particles ? But how can I express my gratitude ? "Certainly not," I fancy I hear you exclaim, "by a long-winded exordium. If yoy have any thing to say, out with it" Consider yourself, then, most heartily thanked for the Magazine. No more welcome periodical makes its advent to my library.

And now as I know you love to answer questions, I am going to ask you a few. Do you know I And it exceedingly difficult to ripen perfectly, so that they shall have any flavor, both the autumn and winter Pears? There is, for instance, the Beurre Diel Some specimens, it is true, ripen very well, with a fine rich taste; but others again are not worth the eating. Moreover, the books say, "In eating from September to December, if ripened in the house." Now, wrap them up in as soft paper, and put them in as cold a place as I please (barring an ice house), they won't keep with me longer than through October. There are the Beurre d'Aremberg and Vicar of Winkfield, - why, as ripened by me, a pig of good taste would turn up his nose at them. In fact, if my pig would'nt, I should doubt the purity of his breed. Now, what secret do you genuemen, the Wilders and other eminent Pomologists, who boast you can make a Vicar of Winkfield eatable - I say, what secret (valuable as that the Hon. Mr. Mathews', who has been engineering at the curculio, says he possesses, and, proh pudor I wont, without a consideration, communicate to the public), do you possess? Dont refer me to what has been written; if you do, you drive me to despair.

Is it so that a bountiful Providence has furnished winter Pears, and then, as the condition of ripening them and the price at which they may be eaten, required us to build houses stuffed with charcoal?-or is it that my climate and soil are bad ? or do I pick them too soon or too late ? (I let them hang on the trees till hard frosts set in,) - or am I unreasonable, and demand a higher flavor than can be obtained ? for, upon my word, I never saw one that was fit to be eaten. Speak! "Let me not burst in ignorance".

Again, will you not do me and many another ignoramus, the good service to name the kinds of Pears which should be picked before maturity ? The Seckel and Autumn Melting should, I believe, bo left to mature; the Bartlett, not. But how is it with the Louise Bonns de Jersey, Beurre Goubault, Henry IV, Diz, Osband's Summer, Oswego Beurre, Beurre Bose, Beurre d'Anjou, Urbaniste, Heathcot, and as many others as you please!

Bo much for my questions. And now, in pre-payment, or rather a small installment toward the payment for the answers I expect, and in order to threw - not my widow's mite, for I am no widow - but my equally humble contribution into your treasury, I give you a couple of items from my experience and reading.

I and that Gartlc planted round the butt of a tree is an effectual protection against the borer. I have tried it some years, and know it answers the purpose. Once planted, then it is, and continues, and is no trouble. I do not recollect to have seen this antidote mentioned in the Horticulturist, or elsewhere. You may be surprised at my libaraltty, but I ask no reward for the discovery.

A French publication I was reading the other day, contains something interesting. A horticulturist In the neigh-borhood of Versailles, a diligent student of vegetable physiology, conceived the idea that the diminutivences of certain plants, for instance the Violet, was attributable to the pressure of the atmosphere, a weight too great for thin, fee-ble organs. The idea having ones secured a lodgment in his brain, he sought means to confirm it This is the expedient he resorted to: Baring obtained a little balloon, he attached to it like a parachute, a pot in which were planted a number of Violets, (Violette de Parme,) and anchored it to the ground by a silken string at the height of some 3,800 feet At the end of two months Violets were obtained of the size of Bengal Roses. It would be a pleasure to hare some of the spacimens at our next Horticultural Exhibition. Would not some amiable and patriotic Frenchman, "Jealsus of his country's feme," be willing to furnish them? IGNORAMUS.

We pity our Connecticut friend who can not ripen such Pears as Beurre Did and Beurrt d'Ar-emberg, that need only be picked from the trees when frost comes, and placed on shelvea in a good dry cellar, where they will soon ripen and be delicious. These are two Pears that can scarcely be mismanaged in ripening. The Vicar needs to be ripened in a temperature of 60° or 70°. Winter Pears are worth ripening just as Potatoes are worth boiling or baking. We know of no variety of Pear that is improved by ripening fully on the tree, not excepting Seekel or Autumn Melting. All the Pears you name are much better ripened in the house, - the temperature of a living-room is good for fall varieties.

A correspondent at Waukesha, Wisconsin, writes to us as follows:

"The Isabella and Catawba Grape vines are not perfectly hardy in this portion of the West They are liable to be killed to the ground, unless protected through the winter. I usually care for them by laying down in the fall and covering with a few inches of earth. I sometimes question the excellence of this plan, - the vines becoming so thoroughly impregnated with moisture, are they not thereby made tender, and more liable to the action of late frost after uncovering?

Win you, when convenient, give some advice through the Horticulturist as to the best mode of proceeding in planting a vineyard of several hundred vines, with express reference to the necessity of protection? also simple and explicit directions as to the training and pruning such a vineyard in a climate thus unfavorable.

The Clinton is hardy and productive, but its flavor is not fine enough tor a table Grape, In my estimation. Among the many new seedlings yearly produced may we not hope for a variety as hardy as the Clinton and as good as the Isabella!"