312 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Hence, the city ]s famous for its neat and tastefully kejot public 

 squares, gardens and cemeteries. A corresi^ondent says : " The 

 weekly meetings of our society always have something of special 

 interest ; and so great is the public desire to know all about its 

 doings, that our newspapers take special pains to have full reports, 

 written by persons who understand what they are reporting, pre- 

 pared for them. 



I think the meetings recently have been of more than usual 

 interest, especially the one that has just closed. It has proved to 

 be the most successful, on the Avhole, of any of the annual exhi- 

 bitions made by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The 

 attendance has been double that of last season, and the cash re- 

 ceipts for admissions have been proportionate. The managers 

 accordingly feel that their efforts in the i^ast have been effective to 

 the end proposed, namely, the education of the public mind to a 

 genuine interest in horticulture, whether in the practical form as 

 cultivators of garden products, or in what, perhaps, may be termed 

 the philosophical and aesthetic form as lovers of progress in the 

 useful arts, and of the beautiful in nature. 



STONE FEUITS. 



PEACH GROWING. 



A correspondent of the American Partner has the following 

 with regard to peach growing in Maryland: •'! plant my trees 

 twenty feet apart each way ; larger trees and more feeding ground 

 result from wide planting. The trees are headed low to allow the 

 branches to shade the trunk and the ground beneath. This is an 

 important matter,, as the summer sun, and possibly the winter sun, 

 scalds the bark and causes it to peal from the trunk. I have also 

 noticed that the parts exposed to the rays of the afternoon sun in 

 summer are most affected. A successful j)each grower in another 

 state showed an orchard which he had planted in such a way that 

 one tree shaded the trunk of another at one or two o'clock in the 

 afternoon ; each tree, in planting, was also inclined sharply to the 

 southwest. Shortening of each year's growth during the first few 

 years of a peach tree's life causes a stocky growth, prevents slab- 

 bing off of long limbs, easy gathering of the fruit, and, what is 



