MR. BERrRAND-The following remarks on fruit trees may not be unacceptable to some of your readers.

 Apple, Pear and auince trees, may be propagated y slips, either simply stuck in the ground, or, as some prefer, by planting them i the manner of grape cuttings Trees raised in this way bear the same kind of fruit, as the trees from which they have been cut. Either of these fruits may be had without core, or seed, by graft ing the top end of the graft instead of the lower end.

 Caterpillars, however numerous on a tree, may be promptly destroyed, by boring an auger hole rather more than half through the body of the tree, then fill the hole with sulphur finely powdered, a plug correspond entt to the size of the auger, must then be driven in as tight as possible and sawed Off even with the tree. In a few days the in- sects will be dead. X.Y Z.