A correspondent at Clinton, N. Y., says:"I see the Abies Manziesii is marked tender about New York, I have wintered a specimen two feet high, which has survived two seasons. The first winter, I gave it a thin blanket of hemlock boughs, and ft came out well in spring, nipped only a little in the extremities of its branches. The second winter, I gave it no protection, and, in the spring it looked sadly, every leaf as red as sole leather. I dug it up, and toted it off to the lawn, intending soon to burn it on a brash heap, and set out in its place a fresh and beautiful hemlock. The day after, I came to look alter my hemlock, and caught up the apparently dead, 'far-fetched, and dear bought' spruse, and started for the brush heap. But as the buds looked plump, I turned aside, and set the tree against a fence, and threw two or three shovelfuls of earth over the roots, to see whether the doomed thing would live. A few days since, I noticed that it was pushing out fresh leaves on every branch, determined to live and to be hardy." This will form a suggestion for the consideration of many. We lately brought home a fine Quercus Luccombiana, which a neighbor had pulled up "because it was dead," and have not a better tree. It retains-its dead leaves all winter, and comes out late in the spring.

Novices destroy many valuable trees from not knowing their habits.

The same correspondent says: "Salisburia adumtifoUa is with me killed to within three feet of the ground; Kolreuteria paniculata, worse still; Magnolia acuminata, top killed, while the deciduous Cypress has wintered better than.ever! and so has the Japan sophera. The English Maple is considerably injured." Alack 1 for half-hardy things! Very many may as well be abandoned aa creating more discomfort than pleasure.