The Germantown Telegraph misinterprets our correspondent's idea, when it says Mr. Josiah Hoopes " deplores the mania for new sorts of fruits, and neglecting the good, long-cultivated and profitable old sorts which, in a measure, had been abandoned." It won't do, major: you must rub up your glasses and take another look. He, in unison with all true horticulturists, deplores the mania that leads men to plant new varieties, simply because they are new, but he is just as much opposed to retaining an old variety simply on account of its antiquity.

The idea of the article in question, and which appeared in the columns of this journal, for January, was to glance over the field of labor since The Horticulturist commenced its work. And the comparison was to ascertain whether we had gained anything in point of quality or not. He has nothing to " deplore; " for it is a well known fact that we have gained in very many ways, although not in flavor in any of our leading fruits.

He did not advise anyone to plant the Butter Pear nor the Newtown Pippin apple, and yet there are sections of our country where these succeed now; and we say the residents of these localities will be foolish indeed if they give them up for some doubtful novelty.