It is probably not for the interest of nurserymen to believe it, but I have no doubt whatever that natural stocks, up as high at the branching point, are the best for the finer fruits. Let the grafting or budding be done at that point, and I do believe the tree will live twice or thrice as long as if done near to the root. Look at the old orchards, even on poor soil in the old states, that were planted when grafting and budding was little practiced, or scarce known in our country, and see the enormous size and great age of some of the trees. Many of the trees, to be sure, were grafted, but it was done years after they were planted, and in the branches. The huge rings on many of them show that.

Take a common wilding from the nursery or a hedge row, cut it with your saw or knife, and see how much tougher and harder it is than the delicate wood of a refined fruit. See the one stand out through all vicissitudes, and grow and flourish, while the other withers, and blights, and cankers under all the care you may give it, unless it be now and then one of the hardiest constitution, which escapes and thrives. The notes of your thorough and capital correspondent, Mr. French, in the June Horticulturist, p. 257, are a practical commentary on the hardihood of natural stocks in surviving the harsh treatment they revive at the hands of bunglers - and I have seen thousands like it - sufficiently so to lead suit growers into the trial, at least, of wildings for their standards - and for peart mart specially. A fact in point I will mention. Some time since I purchased of a nurseryman a lot of pple trees - in the lump - standing on a certain quarter of his grounds which he wanted clear away. Many of the best worked trees had been taken out and sold. Of the reminder probably half were worked at the root and the remainder natural stocks, work-originally, but failed and grew up wild end scrubby.

As the worked trees were not the kind I wanted, I took them up indiscriminately, intending to graft them over, with natural stocks, into kinds that I wished. When they were removed, I found the roots the wildings to be on an average full twice as stout and numerous as the worked stocks, (though the roofs of these last were wildings. In a few days I cut them alt off branch gh and grafted them. 1 found the wildings much harder in the wood - for I sawed off nd trimmed every one myself - than the others, and when planted, some in the orchard, nd others in nursery rows for the purpose of making more growth before planting out, wild stocks budded out thicker and stonger than the worked stocks, and made a bet-ter growth. I should be happy to hear the views of experienced men on this subject.

Black Rock, N.Y., June, 21, 1851. Lewis F. Al.Len.