;")G8 Cincinnati Horticultural Society — Proceedings. [December, 



From all the information the comm.tt- ehas been able to collect both in this couiitrj 

 and Eurofie, an application oi sulphur and lime, according to the annexed directions 

 promises to be more successful than any remedy yet tried. In France it is said 

 to have succeeded this season in preventing ihe ravages of the " Oidium." a 

 disease similar to the rot ; and a member of this society, Wm. Orange, tried it on a 

 portion of his vineyard with marked success. Vinedressers are earnestly request- 

 ed to give it a fair trial, and report progress at the end of the next season. 



R. BUCHANAK".) 

 S. MOSHEK, } Committee. 

 M. KELLY, ) 



Cincinnati, December 3, 1857. 



Recipe for the Use of Sulphur and Lime. — Put half a bushel of unslacked lime and 

 ten pounds flour of sulphur in a forty-gallon barrel, add five or six gallons scald- 

 ing water, and keep stirring it till thoroughly mixed ; then fill up the barrel with 

 cold waler^ and cover up tight till wanted for use. This mixture syringed over 

 the young bunches of grapes .shortly after they are formed it is said, will prevent 

 mildew ; and again when the berries are nearly full grown, an application in the 

 same manner may prevent rot. 



The flour sulphur alone is applied by dusting it over thebunchns of grapes, and 

 on the ground under them, at about the same periods of their growth, mid omitting 

 to syringe with the sulphur and lime-water. Both applicaiions might be tried 

 on a portion of the vineyard to ascertain which is the best — the sulphur and lime, 

 the sulphur alone, or both together. 



R. BUCHANAN,) 



S. MOSHER, } Committee. 



M. KELLY, ) 



N. B. — Syringing plum-trees with the sulphur and lime-water, it is laid, will 

 prevent the ravages of the curculio. 



Mr. Mears, from the Committee on ihe proposed work of Professor Warder on 

 Fruits, submitted the following Report. 



To Dr. John A. Warder, President Cincinnati Horticultural Society— Dear Sir: 

 The undersigned having been appointed a Committee in accordance with the 

 annexed resolutions, to confer with you on the subject of your contemplated work 

 on Fruits, take pleasure, not only in transmitting theresolutii'ns.but in expressing 

 our own gratificatiou in your acquiescence in what is evidently the universul desire 

 of the members of this Society, and also of many others amouf.' the nio<t inte'li. 

 gent fruit-growers throughout the West. It is true, our pomological literature 

 has been enriched by tlie labors of Coxe, Downing, Elliot and others of more 

 recent date, but the Committee are constrained to say in all candor they do not 

 find that increased information in the latter authors that the improved condition 

 of our hortic'ilture demands, and while we would not encourage the public in 

 unreasonable anticipations in regard to the forihcoming work, we cheerfully bear 

 testimony to your ability as a writer and your ample experience in fruit culture, 

 to prepare an accurately descriptive catalogue, and so discrimiu:itive as to enable 

 the inexperienced and ardent ttee-planter to make such selections as will not be 

 regretted in after years. 



Please accept for yourself assurance of our great esteem and regard. 



