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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



3d. Vice Pres., C. M. Hovey, Mass. 

 4th. do M. B. Bateham, Ohio. 



5th. do H. P. Byram, Kentucky. 



6th. do Juries G. Mapes, New Jersey. 



Secretaries — F. R. Elliott, B. Hodge. 



The President, on taking the chair, thanked the 

 Convention for the honor they had done him. 



The report of the committee on organization, 

 was received, read and accepted. The report con- 

 tained the rules for the Society, and the appoint- 

 ment of a committee on seedlings, which appoint- 

 ment was made by the President. 



Reports from New- York, Vermont, Pennsylva- 

 nia, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio, were received. 



The President suggested that the committee pro- 

 ceed at once to the examination of fruits, as they 

 were perishable articles. 



Dr. Herman Wendell, of Albany, offered a pre- 

 amble and resolution in reference to the consolida- 

 tion of the two conventions, so that but one meet- 

 in a might be had in a year, which was adopted. 

 The President appointed a cominitte for the pur- 

 pose of conferring with the other society. The 

 following is the preamble and resolution : — 



Whereas, the National Pomological Convention 

 held at Buffalo, in September of 1848, under the 

 auspices of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 

 composed of delegates from 15 States and the two 

 Canadas was the first general Convention of such 

 character ever convened in the United States, and 

 and whereas that convention unanimously resolved 

 that hereafter an annual Convention of like char- 

 acter should be held under the title of the North 

 American Pomological Convention, that the first 

 meeting with that title should be held in the au- 

 tumn of 1849, at the place where the great fair 

 of the New- York State Agricultural Society was 

 to be held, and on the day succeeding the close of 

 said Fair, therefore we consider this Convention 

 entitled by courtesy to perpetuate itself, but being 

 aware that a convention of an analogous charac- 

 ter was held in the city of New- York in the au- 

 tumn of 1848, and that said convention organized 

 itself into a permanent association under the title 

 of the American Congress of Fruit Growers, 

 which is to assemble in said city of New- York, on 

 tbe 2d day of October next, and believing that 

 the advancement of Pomological Science, as well 

 as the inclination and interests of Pomologists 

 throughout this continent, will be best promoted by 

 a merging of the two apparent conflicting associa- 

 tions into one general organization for future ope- 

 rations, therefore, be it 



Resolved by this Convention, that a Committee 

 of five be designated by its President, whose duty 

 it shall be to attend the coming session of the 

 American Congress of Fruit Growers, and confer 

 with the said congress, or a committee whom they 

 may select in relation to the meeting of the two 

 associations, and as far as this convention is inter- 

 ested, the settling of questions of priority of or- 

 ganization, places of next meeting, and title of 

 Associaton, shall be left to the committees whom 



the two organizations may appoint, and that we 

 will exert ourselves to induce a general attend- 

 ance of those interested, wherever the joint com- 

 mittee determine the next Convention shall be 

 held, but we cannot omit giving it as our opinion, 

 that the cause of Pomological Science will be most 

 promoted, and the feelings of the great mass of 

 Pomologists best satisfied if the next meeting 

 should be held at Cincinnati, or some other west- 

 ern city. 



The President then named Dr. Herman Wen- 

 dell, Prof. James G. Mapes, F. R. Elliot, Chas. 

 Downing, and Dr. J. A. Kcnnicut, as the com- 

 mittee. Syracuse, Sept. 14. 



Hints in Nursery Culture. — Respected Sir: 

 As one of the main objects of the Horticulturist 

 is to disseminate information, and as I have deri- 

 ved many valuable hints from its pages, I propose 

 to give a little of my experience in the nursery 

 business with some reasons for it. There appears 

 to be considerable difference of opinion and of prac- 

 tice, in procuring stocks to graft or inoculate upon 

 in different nurseries. I have been much interest- 

 ed in many articles, relating particulary to the best 

 mode of propagating trees in the nursery, and in 

 none of them more than that of H. E. Hooker, 

 of Rochester, in the last number. This is a ca- 

 pital practical article, and is worth more than a 

 bushel of theory. It is this kind of information 

 that we practical men want. 



The plan that I prefer in raising stocks is the 

 following, for apple, pear, plum and cherry; (for 

 peach, the kernels are planted where they are to 

 be inoculated.) The seeds, shortly after being ob- 

 tained, are mixed with sand, and put in boxes and 

 buried deep in the ground, except the plum and cher- 

 ry, which are placed in reach of the frost in winter. 

 The ground is prepared in the fall or beginning of 

 winter, by being thrown up in ridges of the same 

 width as required for the beds. By this means, 

 the ground can be worked much earlier in the 

 spring, which is important, as the seeds begin to 

 sprout with the first appearance of warm weather. 

 The seeds are sown in drills across the beds, and 

 if too thick are thinned out after coming up, the 

 object being to have them well grown in one sea- 

 son. By frequent stirring the ground and keeping 

 them clean, they are many of them by fall, one- 

 fourth of an inch in diameter, and from 18 inches 

 to 2 feet in height. They are taken up late in the 

 fall, and buried where they can be reached at any 

 time. Towards spring they are grafted, except 

 those that are too small ; these are planted in the 

 nursrey in the spring to inoculate in the latter part 

 of summer. In grafting, the stock is cut off near 

 the surface of the ground, at a smooth place, and 

 a graft about three inches long, inserted by cleft 

 grafting. The larger and more thrifty growing 

 stocks are selected for the more thrifty growing 

 grafts; by this means, it is probable that both are 

 better suited, than if both large and small stocks 

 were grafted indiscriminately with free growing 



