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or window, should look them full in the face. That 

 is, the strongest light and the position of the spec- 

 tator should always he on the same side of the bed. 

 This will be found narticularly necessary with the 

 pansy or tri-colored violet, and some other of the 

 smaller flowering plants. 



Best Sites for Fruit Gardens. — Edson Hark- 

 ness,of Peoria, 111., who has had much experience 

 in fruit raising, makes the following statement in 

 relation to the culture of the peach and grape, 

 (which are partially tender,) which will be found 

 to contain valuable information to western fruit 

 cultivators, and which fully accords with experience 

 elsewhere. " The peach and grape flourish best 

 upon our highest lands, and upon a thin soil ; and 

 it does not seem expedient to cultivate these fruits 

 extensively on any other. The beautiful gently 

 swelling hills, called mounds, which are found in- 

 terspersed all over our prairie country, are, so far 

 as tried, peculiarly adapted to the culture of the 

 peach and the vine. The exemption of the mounds 

 from frost, after tegetation starts in the spring, 

 gives them a great advantage over lower situations. 

 During the last ten years, the wild grapes upon 

 our highest lands have not been injured by frost, 



while in the low lands or hollows, they have been 

 destroyed nearly every alternate year. And when 

 the peach trees are injured by the winter in every 

 other situation, those on the mounds escape." T. 



Successful Transplanting. — A Michigan cor- 

 respondent of the Genesee Farmer says, " In the 

 fall of 1S45, and spring of 1846, I planted three 

 hundred fruit trees of the various kinds, and have 

 not lost one out of that number, notwithstanding 

 the drouth so severe here last summer. Some of 

 the apple trees have grown three feet ; and peaches 

 generally two feet, and some four to six feet. I set 

 them on a piece of rich new land ; dug the holes 

 from three and a half to four feet in diameter, and 

 from eighteen to twenty-four inches deep, filled 

 them up with rich muck and black sand and loam. 

 The earth that was thrown out of the bottom was 

 not thrown back " All such good treatment can 

 scarcely ever fail of similar success. No planter 

 should ever expect to lose a single tree ; and he 

 need not if he treats all properly. Every tree that 

 dies by removal, does so from abuse and bad treat- 

 ment. Avoid such treatment, and all will live as 

 a matter of course. T. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting was held as usual on Tuesday even- 

 ing, June 1-5. 1847. The President in ihe chair. 



Several tables ot" fine plants were shown on the occasion, 

 and very beautiful baskets of cut flowers, also a number of 

 well grown vegetables in great variety, and fruits. Of the lat- 

 ter, there were dishes of delicious Strawberries and Cherries, 

 and also specimens of Apples in perfect preservation, of which 

 several were fall varieties; their fine condition was efl'ected 

 by means of Kephart's patent fruit and vegetable preserver,ilie 

 secret of which is, by means of ice to maintain a uniform 

 temperature, so near the freezing point as to arrest the rotting 

 a» well as the ripening process, without danger o{ freezing 

 them. They were presented by Messrs. Flack, Thompson, 

 and Brothers. 



The following premiums were awarded : 



At the intermediate meeting, June 1, for the best two quarts 

 of strawberries to John Austin, gardener to Isaac B. Baxter ; 

 for the next best strawberries, to Patrick Gallagher, gardener 

 to Miss Gratz. 



On tlie present occasion : By the Committee on Plants and 

 Flowers. — For the best twelve Rocket Larkspurs, to Anthony 

 Felten. For the best hothouse plants, to Archibald Hender- 

 son, gardener to T. W. Smith. For the second best ditto, to 

 William Hall, gardener to C. Cope. For the best greenhouse 

 plants to Archibald Henderson. For Ihe second best ditto, to 

 ine same. For the most interesting collection of plants in 

 pots, to Benjamin Gullis, gardener to Jacob Snider jr. For 

 the second best ditto, to Archdjald Henderson. For the third 

 best ditto, to Robert Kilvington. For the fourth best ditto, to 

 Patrick Gallagher. For the best indigenous plants, to Archi- 

 bald Henderson. For the best basket of cut flowers, and for 

 the second best basket, to Robert Kilvington ; and special pre- 

 miums of one dollar each for bouquets to William Hall, gar- 

 dener to C. Cope, Patrick Gallagher, gardener to Miss Gratz, 

 and to A. Henderson. 



By the Committee on Fruits — who report thai they have 

 examined and tasted of those apples which have been pre- 

 served by the vegetable and fruit preserver, invented by Mr. 

 Kephart, comprising five varieties, viz. Cider, Bellefleur, Fa- 

 vorite. GermdiJtown, and Newtown Pippin, and deposited by 

 Flack, Thompson & Bro , and recommend a premium of three 

 dollars. And for the best strawberries they recommend a pre- 

 mium of two dollars to Andrew Paltoii, gardener to Mrs. 

 Kohne. For the second best, called '■ Buist's Prize," one dol- 

 lar to Robert Buist. For the best cherries, three pounds, to 

 Andrew Paltou ; and for the second best cherries, to Jno. Aus- 

 tin, gardener to Isaac B. Baxter. 



By the Committee on Vegetables — For the most interesting 

 display, to Jno. Austin, gardener to Isaac B. Baxter. For the 

 second best display, to Anthony Felten. For the third best 

 display, to Patrick Gallagher, gardener to Miss Gratz. For 

 the best artichokes, six in number, to Andrew Patton, garde- 

 ner to Mrs. Kohne. And a special premium of one dollar for 

 a fine displ.iy of Cucumbers and Tomatoes, exhibited by V\'m. 

 Hall, gardener to Caleb Cope. 



The Treasurer presented his semi-annual statement of ac- 

 counts, which was read and reterred. 



The Committee to superintend exhibitions reported a vacan- 

 cy in their number, which the president filled by appointing 

 Dr James H. Bradford. 



A communication to the Secretary, from Messrs. Elwaiiger 

 and Barry of Ruchesler, N. Y., was read, describing the Nor- 

 thern Spy Apple, and declining the premium awarded at the 

 last meeting, and presenting it as a donation to the Society. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported a communication 

 from Mr. A. H. Ernst, near Cincimiati, Ohio, in reply to his, 

 announcing Mr. Ernst's election to honorary and correspond- 

 ing membership, which was read 



Tno3 P. James. 



Secretary. 



