The foot notes, referred to in our last issue, can be found in the last Report of American Pomological Society, for session of 1871, as follows:

Page 80 - "The Secretary would here remark, that conductors of journals and publishers of books are utterly ignorant of varieties of fruits or plants. It is their business to publish and sell, and look to returns on the credit of the writers who supply them matter; and it has become too noted, in all our journals, to longer be questioned, viz: that if a journalist can obtain matter, free of cost, his position, simply as publisher, frees him from any responsibility; and hence it is that the record of a man of one year's knowledge and acquaintance of fruit, or principle, is valued or recorded equal with him who has devoted a life to the subject."

Also, on page 79 - " The Secretary of the. American Pomologieal Society would like to remark, that just here comes in the fact of so much of incorrect nomenclature, vis.: it is from the egotistical ideas of knowledge, assumed by men who have had but half a dozen or so of years acquaintance with a fruit, and are void of any knowledge of it outside of their own immediate locality."

The italics, in the first paragraph above, are our own, and indicate the most emphatic portion to which the press take exception.

Since the publication of our editorial for May, the subject has been commented upon by various influential journals in the East and the West, and the conviction seems to be general that Mr. Flagg will be found a most useful and popular officer. We did not propose, by our May editorial, to commenoe any specific personal warfare against the individual who has proved obnoxious, by the misuse of his position; we simply save publicity, as matters of horticultural information, to the reports which were flying around, from parties desiring a change, and indorsed the idea, believing it would be for the higher good of the American Pomologieal Society. We do not propose to follow the Ex-Secretary into his retirement, nor (as Mrs. Partington says) be always flinging epitaphs at him; we have adopted a course which is without offense - his name and his articles are strictly forbidden in any columns or pages under our control. He shall have the crush of Time's most demolishing weapon - perfect silence.

The Agriculturist, Hearth and Home, Rural New Yorker, Weekly Sun, Weekly Tribune, are equally unanimous in the desire for change; and in each of these journals Mr. Flagg is supported. The Western Rural passes high compliment upon the wisdom of the change, and the judicious choice of Mr. Flagg. Doubtless other journals will soon express opinions, and the "Tempest in the Teapot " will have full force ere the ides of September. It is well known that not a single journal, in New York city, of agricultural or horticultural character, now prints the Secretary's articles, uniformly refusing all of them; and in general his name is absolutely forbidden to be mentioned in print. These statements are sufficient to show to the public the rapid change in his reputation. The following extract is from Hearth and Home:

"The statement of the Secretary, in his foot note, in the first place, is false, and in the second place, it is a piece of impertinence for the Secretary to give his opinion in an official report. In common with others of the press, we felt indignant at this insult, smuggled into an official report, and consulted with other officers about it. At the next meeting proper action will be taken.

" So far as the press of New York is concerned - meaning those, of course, giving especial attention to agriculture and horticulture - no communication, "official" or otherwise, from the present Secretary, is admitted.

"It remains for the Society to decide if an individual, who has placed himself in such an attitude towards the press, can any longer be useful as one of its officers."

On the same topic, the Rural New Yorker of May 17th, holds that the course of the Secretary is both false and injudicious, and, because so, insulting to the very class of men upon whom the American Pomological Society, through its Secretary and otherwise, has made large drafts for favors; and who have always treated the Society with the greatest hospitality and cordiality, and adds:

"If it is the desire of the Secretary to alienate this class of men from, and close the columns of their papers to the American Pomological Society, he has gone the right way to work to do it, when he inserts such a libel upon them in the Society's official report, and assumes the responsibility thereof as Secretary of the Society."

The Western Rural also says as follows: "If the American Pomological Society really want to recover their lost prestige, they must come down from their stilts, and commence anew, and not set themselves up as the embodiment of all the horticultural knowledge in the United States. They must not suppose that kindred societies and the horticultural journals will revolve around them as mere satellites, drawing their light from the great central luminary.

"If the Society feel inclined to have a Secretary from still nearer the setting sun, than the one they now have, the Western Rural can cordially indorse Mr. Flagg for that position. He is a gentleman of good scholastic and literary ability, and, as Secretary of the Illinois Horticultural Society, his reports showed close application, and an appreciation of the true interests of the Society and the horticulturists of the West.

As we conclude this subject, which is distasteful to us - to say the least - we have only to add, that the conductors of our journals throw out, every week, articles written from these very men of one year's experience, referred to above, because we do not believe their trash. We constantly seek for reliable truth and practical experience; and each journal does more for the encouragement of correct ideas, and practical application of them, in horticulture, in a single year, than a turbulent Secretary can do in a lifetime.