This new building, now in progress of erection, is the largest of the kind in our country, being 75 X 200 feet, and will afford ample room for the displays of the Society. It is in contemplation to introduce a strong body of water into the building for the supply of fountains, cascades, etc. A narrow gallery will extend around three sides of the main hall, enabling visitors to look down upon the entire display. The ladies of the Society will hold a grand bazaar for the sale of floricultural and fancy articles on the 29th of May next, in the new hall, at which time the Society will also hold its spring exhibition of roses, strawberries, etc., the proceeds to be ap-plied to frescoing and otherwise decorating the hall.

The Apricot and Nectarine are both fruits of great excellence, and we think we may safely say, so little cultivated that hundreds, nay, thousands, of persons, living in the bustle of life, both of town and country, and possessed of knowledge and general intelligence, do not know how they look or taste, never having seen one. The trees of both are as hardy as the peach, and we do not think the blossoms any more liable to be destroyed by late spring frosts. It is true the curculio preys upon them, but no more than he does on the plum; and as the fruit is, if anything, superior, and always commands more price in market, if it will pay to cultivate plums by destroying the curculio, then it certainly will pay to grow apricots and nectarines by using the same means to insure their ripening their fruit.

The practice of growing trees on trellises, although as a general thing not necessary for fruit-growers in this country, can be adopted profitably with varieties that require the careful watching and management of a true fruit-grower. While many fruits can be, and are, grown by the careless cultivator, he who understands himself should find most money in the cultivation of sorts that require skill, watchfulness, and care to perfect them.

Facts about "Pear Blight." - For twelve years I have been successful in raising pears. Dwarf and Standard never suffered any from "blight." Last year, and some the year before, I manured a piece of ground heavily, on which there were about fifty trees in good condition. The ground was well worked, and this year I had the mortification of seeing two thirds of all those trees taken by the " blight," and nearly all utterly destroyed. Another piece, containing about forty trees in a clover sod, escaped entirely, not a particle of blight on any one of the trees in the sod, and more or less " blight" on nearly all of the trees highly manured and cultivated. A. F. S.

Moline, ILL