DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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Secretary — B. P. Johnson, Allmny. 



Treasurer — A. E. Brown, Albany. 

 Managers — Amos Briggs, Schanhticoke ; Ste- 

 PHEX E. Warren, Troy ; J. M. Lovett, Albany; 

 Wm. Buswell, Troy ; J. McD. McIntyre, Al- 

 bany ; Jas. Henry. Watervliet ; Wm. Newcomb, 

 Pittsiovvn ; James Wilson, Albany ; A. Osborn, 

 Watervliet. 



Committees for 1848. 



On Green-house Plants and Flowers — Wm. New- 

 comb, ot'Pittstown. chairman ; Dr. Stepiien Wicks, 

 Trov ; A. J. Parker, Albany ; C. Hemstreet, Troy; 

 J. M. Lovett, Albany. 



On Fruit — Dr. Herman Wendell, Albany, chair- 

 man ; V. p. Douw, Greenbush ; David Benson, Al- 

 bany ; B. Kirtland, Greenbush ; W. Buswell, Troy. 



On Vegetables — John S. Walsh, Bethlehem, 

 chairman; Dennis Beldin, Troy; C.N. Bement, 

 Albany ; John H. Haydock, Troy ; Robert F. 

 Johnstone, Albany. 



On Gardens — Luther Tucker, Albany, chairman ; 

 B. T. Cushman, Troy ; C. F. Crosby, Watervliet. 



On Essays, and for establishing synonyms of 

 fruits — Dr. E. Emmons, Albany, chairman ; Amos 

 Briirgs, Schaghtieoke ; Sanford Howard, Albany ; 

 JohnH. Willard, Troy ; Dr. J. M. Ward, Albany. 



On Discretionary Premiums — E. P. Prentice, Al- 

 bany, chairman ; Henry Vail, Troy ; Wm. Cooper, 

 Guilderland ; David Hamilton, Watervliet ; Setli 

 H. Terry, Troy. 



On Floral Designs, Bouquets, Ornaments, &c. — 

 S. E. Warren, Troy, chairman ; Abel French, Al- 

 bany ; George Gould. Troy ; Erastus H. Pease, 

 Albany; John B. Gale, Troy. 



On Arrangements for Exhibition — For Albany — 

 J. MeD. McIntyre, chairman ; James Wilson, Wm. 

 Tliorburn, Charles B. Lansing, Dr. John Wilson. 



For Troy— S. E. Warren, D. T. Vail, Wm. Bus- 

 well, C. Hemstreet, Charles Dauchy. 

 Exhibitions for 1848-9. 



At Albany, 2d Wednesday, 14th June — For fruits, 

 cherries, strawberries, flowers, vegetables, &c. 



At Troy, 2d Wednesday, 12th July — For fruits, 

 cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, flow- 

 ers, vegetables, &c. 



At Albany, September — Annual Show. 



At Albany, 2d Wednesday of February, 1849. 

 Annual Meeting — Fruit, flowers, 8cc. 



Answers to Correspondents — Manures — E. 

 B. — Liquid guano is prepared by putting lib. of 

 guano in 3 gallons of water. The mixture should 

 be allowed to stand 24 hours before using it. It 

 produces the most decidedly beneficial elfects on 

 all plants in a growing state ; applied when they 

 are dormant, it is frequently injurious. Camellias, 

 and other wood green house plants, are greatly be- 

 nefited by it if watered with it while they are 

 making young shoots. 



Rapid Growing Vines. — R. W. C. — Cobea 

 scandens and Ipomea Learii, are the two best an- 

 nual vines for covering a largo surface rapidly. 

 They are both very ornamental — niay be had in 

 pots of the florists, and should be turned out imme- 

 mediately. 



Fruit Trees. — jl Boston Subscriber. It will 



be best to remove all the old soil round your dis- 

 eased pear tree, and replace with a compost of 

 good peat loam from an old pasture, mixed with a 

 peck of lime, a bushel of wood ashes, and a cart 

 load of stable manure. This will bring the tree 

 into a healthy bearing state again. — R. L. P. (Bal- 

 timore.) — The Madeleine is rather more liable to 

 fire-blight than other pear trees — try Dearborn's 

 seedling — a finer early sort. — IV. (Trenton.) — If 

 your peach tree ripens its fruit prematurely, and 

 sends out wiry shoots along the branches with 

 dwarfish, narrow leaves, it certainly has the yellows. 

 It is better to dig it up and burn it at once, as the 

 disease will spread. Pruning other peach trees 

 directly after cutting ofl" limbs of one having the 

 yellows, is sufficient to communicate this disease. 

 W. (Pittsburgh.) — If your cherry trees refuse to 

 come into bearing from over luxuriance, dig a 

 trench and cut ofl' one-fourth of the roots at their 

 outer extremities. Small cherry trees may be 

 brought into bearing early by pinching out the ends 

 of ail the terminal shoots about the middle of June, 

 thus forcing them to form fruit buds for the next 

 year. 



Grapes. — ^ constant reader. — Give the soil 

 in which your native grape vines grow a plentiful 

 sprinkling of gypsum or plaster of paris, and turn 

 this top-dressing under immediately. We have 

 found this a complete protection against mildew. 

 Under glass the floor of the vinery should be dusted 

 over wMth flower of sulphur when the young grapes 

 are formed, as directed by Mr. Allen in his pam- 

 phlet. This is a much neater process than throw- 

 ing the sulphur on the bunches. 



Gooseberries. — /. B. S. (Philadelphia.) Se- 

 veral of our correspondents tried the salt hay last 

 spring for gooseberries, and found it to prevent the 

 rust. It should however be spread under the bush- 

 es early in the spring. 



Raspberries. — J. Fulton, jr. The true Red 

 Antwerp is one of the hardiest of all foreign rasp- 

 berries. It bears good crops here without protec- 

 tion — but still better ones if the branches are bent 

 down in autumn and slightly covered with earth. 



Garden Engine. — M. P. (Richmond.) will 

 find a description of various kinds in this number. 

 Mr. Poole's machines are admirably made. The 

 larger hand-engine will answer his purpose ex- 

 actly. 



Cypress Vine. — A Lady. — Soak the seeds three 

 hours in warm water before planting. They will 

 then all vegetate. 



Books. — A Novice. — Lindley's Theory of Hor- 

 ticulture is the best work on that branch of the 

 subject in any language. — Williamson. — For a 

 hand-book of reference the best little treatise on 

 the kitchen garden, is Buist's jPaz/uVi/ Kitchen Gar- 

 dener. It is to the point — no superfluous words. 

 Loudon's Suburban Horticulturist, is a better 

 book for the practical cultivator than his Ency- 

 clopedia of Gardening. 



Roses. — L. (Rochester.) Souvenir de Mai- 



