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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



readv for the market, some of which will no doubt 

 be sent to New- York, and several amateurs have 

 pood prospects; a few of these will no doubt sell 

 their surplus, so that a small supply will this year 

 be found among us at about tifty cents the pound, 

 and the supply Vill continue probably all Septem- 

 ber, with Cliasselas, Sweet water, Muscat of Al- 

 exandria, and a few others. 



It is an interesting question to be solved by the 

 information obtained from as many quarters as pos- 

 sible, and to be obtained from some of j'our corres- 

 pondents, at what price this delicious fruit would 

 be profitable to cultivate under glass. It would be 

 desirable to know this, both for iorced fruit and that 

 which had merely the protection of glass. All our 

 cities have yet to be supplied, and it will probably 

 turn out that with care and economy, and with a 

 goor understanding of the whole routine of culture, 

 it may prove on a large scale a capital business. 

 Let all who can give results, by weighing ail they 

 pick from their glass houses, inform the editor of 

 the quantity they produce and the cost, recollecting 

 that a grapery does not afford constant occupation 

 to a gardener, but that a man hired by the month 

 can also attend to a good kitchen and flower gar- 

 den, or with an assistant, can do much besides even 

 attending a very considerable grapery. It does not 

 require much time in fall and winter, &c. &c. /. 

 J. S. Philadelphia, Aug. 9th, 1847. 



The Great Annual Fair, of the N. Y. State 

 Agricultural Soeiet}', will be held at Saratoga 

 Springs on the 15th, Ifith and 17th of September. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — 

 The nineteenth annual exhibition will beheld at the 

 Society's Hall, Boston, on Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, September 22d, 23d and 24th. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 will hold its nineteenth annual exhibition on the 

 15th, 16th and 17th of September, in the Philadel- 

 phia Museum, corner of Ninth and George streets, 

 and will oecupj' the two grand saloons of that build- 

 ing. The committee solicit contributions in fruits, 

 plants, flowers, and culinary vegetables. Articles 

 from a distance may be sent by Adams & Co. 's Ex- 

 press, and the Society will cheerfully defray the 

 cost of transportation. The same may be address- 

 ed to D. Landretli's seed warehouse, 65 Chesnut st., 

 or Thomas P. James, 212 Market street, Phila- 

 delphia. 



American Agricultural Association. Hor- 

 ticultural Exhibition. — This society, to avoid con- 

 flicting with the State Fair, wall hold its autumnal 

 exhibition of fruits and flowers at the Lyceum build- 

 ing, 561 Broadway, on the 8th and 9th of Septem- 

 ber. It is expected that this will be a more bril- 

 liant show of fruits and flowers than has been seen 

 in New- York for many years. 



Montreal Hort. Society. — We have been fa- 

 vored by the Rev. Mr. Villeneuve, one of the 

 Vice-Presidents of this Society, with a copy of the 

 proceedings connected with its formation, together 

 with its list of premiums to be awarded at its au- 

 tumnal show, to be held on the 8th of Sept. The 

 institution is under the patronage of his excellency 



the Earl of Elgin and Kilcardin ; the Hon Mr. Jus- 

 tice Day, President, whose address, at the meeting 

 held for orgas.iziiig the Society, we have read with 

 interest. 



New Haven County Horticultural Society. 

 — The seventeenth annual exhibition of this spirited 

 Society will take place at tiie State House, New 

 Haven, on the 28tli, 29th and ;Wth of September. An 

 address will be delivered before the Society on the 

 afternoon of Wednesday, the second day; and we 

 are requested to say that delegates from other So- 

 cieties, on making themselves known at the place 

 of exhibition, will be cordially received by a com- 

 mittee ap]iointed for the purpose. 



OCf- A Horticultural Society has been organized 

 at Springfield, Mass., and the following officers ap- 

 pointed : — Wm. B. Calhoun, President; Timothy 

 W. Carter, J. B. Bridgeman, Henry Vose, Vice- 

 Presidents ; B. K. Bliss, Secretary and Treasurer; 

 Rufus Whittier, D. M. Bryant, Richard Bliss, Hen- 

 ry Brewer, Jr., Lucius Harthan, Directors. 



Hovey's Fruits. — I have carefully examined the 

 new periodical of Mr. Hovey, with colored plates of 

 fruit, reviewed by you in p. 568 of the Horticultur- 

 ist, and am surprised that you have spoken so favor- 

 ably of it, and commended it to the public favor. I 

 suspect that there must have been a copy of it spe- 

 cially prepared for your eye, as those I have seen 

 disappoint many here. The coloring is poor, and 

 the portraits or likenesses quite bad. Baldwin apple 

 for instance, is painted a bright scarlet, when every 

 one knows the fruit itself is of a purplish red. I am 

 quite confident too that no cultivator would recog- 

 nize the Glout Morceau pear from the plate given 

 ofit. 



Among other great things promised in the pros- 

 pectus, was " sketches of the habit of the tree." 

 Without wishing to be hypor-critieal, I call upon 

 any one knowing the growth of the Baldwin ap- 

 ple to look at the " sketch of the habit" of that 

 sort, given at the beginning of the description on 

 page 11. It looks more like a sketch of the habit 

 of a lean asparagus stalk ! 



If the future numbers evince no more pomologi- 

 cal discrimination than the first, the work will be 

 of little value. Yours. W. Philadelphia, Aug. 

 Wth, 1847. 



The Dutch Elm, (Ulmus suberosa.) — This is, as 

 many of our readers are aware, one of the most 

 vigorous and rapid growing of all the fine genus of 

 trees to which it belongs. It is distinguished from 

 other foreign species by its corky bark. Though 

 the tree is not so graceful and elegant in shape as 

 our American weeping Elm, it forms a large, up- 

 right, and dark massy head of foliage, and few trees 

 serve better to form rapidly, thick screen pantations, 

 to hide unsightly objects, or produce rich masses of 

 verdure, than the Dutch Elm. 



We have also observed the present season, that 

 trees of the Dutch Elm, standing in the streets of a 

 village, among other native elms, were entirely un- 

 touched by caterpillar, and other insects which prey 

 upon the latter. If this exemption is constant, it 

 will render the Dutch Elm particularly valuable as 

 a town shade tree. 



