Those orchards may be good models for the Michigan climate, but I would like to show Prof. Bailey some on the " Eastern Shore," that show different handling. These remind me of a visit I paid many years ago to the place of Rev. Mr. Knox, on Monongahela Heights, opposite Pittsburg, then a noted nursery, especially for grapes and strawberries. It was a mucky day in March, and the Pittsburg smoke lay like a pall over the landscape, Mr. Knox was showing me his various fruit plantations, and I found it difficult to distinguish different sorts of trees, then leafless, because of the sooty coating all had gathered. In one part of the grounds I noticed a large block of what I took to be uncommonly large currant bushes On complimenting Mr. Knox on the magnificent growth of his currant bushes, he turned to me with a laugh, "Currant bushes ! why, that is my peach orchard." As I was then fresh from the "Eastern Shore," I enjoyed a hearty laugh myself, and asked him to please comedown and let me show him a real peach orchard. - W. F. Massey, N, C. College of Agriculture.

[Note. - The Michigan orchards which were describ-in the March number are models for Michigan, and they receive the most expert care, and are highly profitable. Michigan growers do not expect to secure the large trees of the south. It would be an interesting discussion if correspondents in different latitudes were to describe the model orchards of their respective regions. - Ed. Am. G].