Last fall I set about two thousand of the Salix viminalis, or basket willow, in a light loamy soil (it will stand a drouth well) from which I had taken sixty bushels of shelled corn per acre. I set them on a quarter of an acre, intending to set out the whole piece in future, making in all three acres. I was induced to try this kind of business, thinking it would be profitable. They said the willow could be grown on the soil before stated, and by paying as much attention to it as I would to corn, I could raise two tons per acre in three or four years, valued form $100 to $160 per ton.

This is new business to me, and I should like to get some information from persons with more experience in the culture of trees, Ac, than I have had an opportunity to obtain. The willow business constituted quite an item in our imports for the last year. $5,000,000 worth were used in the United States, of which New York eity is said to have used $2,000,000. If our climate is favorable, soil suitable, and if we can raise them for $50 per ton, I cannot see what other inducements we wish to try and cultivate them.

. Though I am saying two words for myself to one for somebody else, if these few remarks should suggest something to your mind that would be useful hints for all, then I have not written in vain. L. A. Beardsley. - South Edineston.

There are other points to be considered beside the mere growing of the willow. They must be peeled and prepared for market in the same way as those imported from Europe. We hope Mr. Beardsley's inquiries will elicit some information on the subject, as it seems to attract considerable attention at this time.

Perhaps what I may have to say is old to old gardeners, but to young ones, like myself the result of a little experiment in the culture of cabbages, may be both new and useful.

I planted the ground occupied with such peas as Stubb's Dwarf and Champion of England, and after the peas had been removed, with cabbage plants of the variety of Premium Flat Dutch. August was considerably advanced before I got them in the ground, and, as I might have expected when winter came but few of them were good for anything, most of them not being headed at all or only very loosely. I dug a trench in the ground deep enough to receive the cabbages, and placed them in it heads down, and threw straw loosely over them and covered them up, just as I did well-headed cabbages for spring use. Now for the result: - Upon opening the trench the other day, (April,) I was surprised to find that these loose cabbages had become as hard as wood - indeed, perfect cabbages, though small. I have related the circumstance to several professional gardeners, who say that they knew before that cabbages would keep when buried, but did not before know they would head when buried. It seems to me a very useful fact J. G. W.