"First rate, and don't blight when top-budded." In my grounds this kind, root-grafted, is the worst top blighter I have.

In the hard winters previously alluded to (1855, '6, and 1856, 7), Mr. Overton's trees of Rambo, root-grafted (about one hundred), were all killed to the ground, while in Mr. John Gamble's orchard, about one-quarter of a mile distant, there were two trees of this kind, top-grafted, planted out in 1851, twenty-two years ago, which were uninjured, are now perfectly sound and bear plentifully.

I will state here, that in Mr. Gamble's orchard are four trees of what he calls "Early Sheep's Nose," which is a very fine apple and great bearer, ripening in August; perfectly hardy top-worked, but tender and worthless root-grafted. This kind came from a nursery in Henry county, Iowa, twenty-two years ago. I cannot make it out to be identical with any other known variety, though it probably is. Can some one give information about it? Being a constant bearer, it is a very profitable summer fruit.

To close this communication, already too long, I will say that I have in my grounds at Knoxville, several trees of Williams' Favorite, four of which are top-grafted four feet or upwards from the ground; have been in bearing about ten years, and have never failed to produce a good crop annually, ripening gradually from fifteenth of August to about the last of September. They are among the best, and by far the most profitable summer apple I have; while I have three others, root-grafted, and five of such will not, in proportion to age and size, produce as much as one of the top-grafted trees. I will add further, that from an experience with this kind of ten years' fruiting, it is, for all qualities, without a rival as a summer fruit.

Knoxville, Iowa.