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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



visible, by the display of the fruit itself; and how- 

 ever commendable the enterprise is, we would not 

 base our encomiums so much upon the (juantity as 

 upon the quality of specimens. The anxious desire 

 to possess every thiufr that is new in the shape of 

 fruit trees, because they are so, is not legitimately 

 the great object to be sought for in the results of 

 our horticultural labors, but rather a judicious and ] truly your ob't. 

 proper selection of those which have been tested in i 10, 1847 

 their various qualities and found adapted to our lo- 

 calities And again, we all know there are many 

 fruits that possess an excellence in one locality that 

 is lost by removal to another ; and as friend D. 

 Thomas pithily observes, " three degrees of latitude 

 may produce more than three degrees of flavor." 

 Amongst the apples were the Northern Spy, Swaar, 

 St. Lawrence, Uoxbury Russet, Detroit Red, Ca- 

 bashear, Seek-no-further, Rhode-Island Greening, 

 &c. ; and of pears, the Seckel, Glout Morceau, ^te- 

 vens' Genesee, Summer Virgalieu, White Doyenne, 

 Onondaga, Beurre d'Aremburg, Maria Louisa, 

 Duchess D'Angouleme and Bartlett. These are 

 standard sorts for this locality ; truly fine in all 

 respects, and sure bearers. Of peaches we fail, as 

 compared with the New- Jersey growers ; our soils 



is manifest in the agrieultnral and horticultural s o 

 cieties of our own and the adjacent counties, in 

 urging the claims of tniscity to be the place of hold- 

 ing the State Agricultural Fair for 1848. Nume- 

 rous resolutions have been adopted, and committees 

 appointed to farther this object, which wc trust will 

 be favorably received bv our eastern friends. Very 

 W. R. Coppock. Buffalo, Oct. 



Strawberries. — I noticed an article signed by 



" A Subscriber," and dated " Nashville," in your 

 last number. I greatly regret that friend Long- 

 worth, so noted for his open manliness, should 

 have attacked me from a masked battery. Being 

 oppressed with the execution of a mass of nursery 

 orders, besides the extensive correspondence of the 

 present period, I can not at this time do justice to 

 Mr. LoNGWORTH or myself in any responsive com- 

 ments ; but sir, I design to take up the " Straw- 

 berry Question" once more in December, and to 

 combine very many important items, that I think I 

 shall finish the subject ; and although I am desirous 

 at all times, from feelings of personal respect, to 

 shun collision with the '' Hercules'' of Cincinnati on 



are not warm enough, and our late frosts endanger , any subject, I shall not refrain, when discussing this 

 a sureness of crop ; yet, notwithstanding, we have j matter, to point out several errors into which he 

 many fine peaches. Crawford's Melacoton,_bolh ^ has inadvertently fallen, including those of his last 



early and late. Red Cheek Melacoton, Red Rare. 

 ripe, George the Fourth, are, perhaps, among the 

 choicest of those tliat flourish with us. In grape 

 culture much is also doing. All the hardier kinds 



communication, now referred to. Yours very resp. 

 IVm. R. Prince. Flushing, Nov. 12, 1847. 



The Rules of Pomology. — Dear Sir : I am 



are pretty generally cultivated ; and several vine- j happy to be able to inform you, that at a regular 



ries are in the course of building, for the culture of i meeting of oar Society last evening, the report of 



■ ■ ' . ■ .• ■ • • ' the Fruit Committee, embodying a series of rules 



the more rich, but more tender foreign varieties, 

 -which, in a season or two, will render us entirely 

 independent of foreign importation. The quince 

 culture has undergone a radical change ; the error 

 that predominated, in giving the quince shady and 

 out of the way places, under the fence, &e.. with 

 poorness of soil, is now well nigh exploded. The 

 noble specimens that have been exhibited by our 

 enterprising amateur, L. Eaton, Esq., measuring 

 15 inches in circumference, are the result of strong 

 feeding, open position, and well tilled borders. 

 The sci-apings of the poultry-house have increased 

 his stock nearly fifty i)er cent in size. These re- 

 sults of the progress of our infant society are truly 

 gratifying to us, as evidencing a rapidly discrimi- 

 natinjx taste and skill in horticulture, creditable to 

 our citizens senerally, and may be taken as an 

 earnestof our future eHbrtsin this delightful pursuit. 

 I hope you will allow me to say, that it is to the 

 excellent horticultural and agricultural works of 

 our country, (and tirst among these I must number 

 the Horticulturist, Fruit and Fruit Trees, &.C., Cot- 

 tage Residences, &c.) that we owe much of the 

 impulse towards rural improvement now evinced 

 here. An intelligent friend from New-York, whom 

 I drove through and about the city lately, remark- 

 ed, " Downing seems to be well known to you all 

 here. Your cottage designs — your mode of paint- 

 ing — your gardening, all bespeak a familiarity with 

 his works." And there are many here not personally 

 known to you, who, nevertheless, almost claim you 

 as a friend, and delight to converse with you through 

 he columns of the Horticulturist. Great interest 



to fix the nomenclature of fruits, was, after consi- 

 derable discussion, adopted by the Society in a bo- 

 dy, with great unanimity and much enthusiasm. I 

 enclose the printed report of the committee. Yours, 

 ./i Member of the Horticultural Society. Phila- 

 delphia, Nov. 17, 1847. 



[We reprint this report, as though the rules are 

 essentially the same as passed at Boston aad Cin- 

 cinnati, there is a slight difference in the phraseo- 

 logy.] 



Report of the Committee of the Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society for establishing the names of 

 Fruits. 



The Committee for establishing the names of 

 Fruit, beg leave to report : 



That, in the discharge of the duties of their ap- 

 pointment, during the past year, they trust they 

 have been in some measure, instrumental in diffus- 

 ing a more correct knowledge of the true names of 

 the various specimens of fruit, which have been ex- 

 hibited at the meetings of the Society. They have 

 had, however, difliculties to contend with, chiefly 

 growing out of the confusion which exists in pomo- 

 logical nomenclature. Several names, not unfre- 

 quently, have been given to the same fruit, and at 

 times the Committee has been at a loss to determine 

 which should have the pre-eminence. That all em- 

 barrasment ,in regard to this matter, may be avoided , 

 some standard authority, for the names of fruit, should 

 be recognized by the Society. It is also important 

 that a uniform set of rules should be adopted by 

 the leading Horticultural Societies, for naming new 



