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Johnson, (N. Y.) Apply your guano in the com- 

 post heap at the rate of 100 lbs. to sufficient bulk 

 ill' compost to manure the acre, and let it lie all 

 winter. It is much better than to use guano 

 alone, as is commonly used in this country. 



Fkuit Trees. — d Hartford Subscriber. The 

 pear trees require more food than your soil sup- 

 plies. Make a compost of 1 bushel guano, 6 

 bushels of leached ashes, and 3 cart loads of good 

 heavy loam, (your soil being light,) and apply a 

 good coat of this as a dressing this autumn, dig- 

 ging it under the surface. For a compost for 

 peaches and pears, see Hort. of last March, (vol. 

 3, p. 403.) Apricots, if worked on Plum Stocks, 

 do well Ln strong soils, and perhaps better as 

 standards, than when trained; but they should be 

 headed down, or kept low and bushy, so that the 

 leaves will shade the trunk ; or they will be liable 

 to gum, and die suddenly. We advise you to 

 move your plum trees near to the hog-pen, and 

 enclose them in a yard where the pigs can have 

 the range. 



Evergreens. — A. R. C, (New-Haven.) To 

 give your evergreens a healthier growth, (if the 

 soil is already good,) give them a top-dressing of 

 ashes and plaster, (gypsum,) and apply it at once. 



Tea Roses. — An Amateur, (Rochester.) You 

 will hardly succeed in keeping tea roses out in the 

 open ground all winter, even by covering them 

 well, unles.s you put a glazed frame over them, 

 covering it with straw, and opening it occasionally 

 in mild weather. You may keep them with ease 

 through the winter, by lifting them with balls of 

 earth now, transplanting them thickly into a com- 



mon hot-bed frame in a sheltered place, and cover- 

 ing the glass with straw or mats. All the other 

 cverblooming roses will stand in the open borders 

 by merely covering them well with branches of 

 evergreens or litter, so as to keep the sun off in 

 winter. 



Peach Orchards. — A Young Planter, (South- 

 side Staten Island.) The choicest late peaches for 

 profitable market culture are the following: — 

 Morris White, Crawford's Late, Heath Cling, 

 Druid Hill, Snow Peach, Old Mixon Freestone, 

 La Grange, and Ward's Late Free. In planting 

 an orchard of 2000 trees in your neighborhood, 

 we should choose the above in about equal propor- 

 tions, giving the preference to Morris White and 

 Crawford's Late, as the most uniformly produc- 

 tive. 16 or 18 feet apart, each way, is the usual 

 distance; but you may plant them 12 feet, if you 

 keep them low and bushy, and shorten-in the tops 

 every year, by which means you will have the 

 finest fruit. Above all, be careful to get trees of 

 healthy constitution, free from all hereditary sus- 

 picion of the yellows. The size and quality of 

 your fruit depends almost wholly on the depth and 

 goodness of your soil. 



Winter Pears. — T. Willia7is, (Philadelphia.) 

 Pick the fruit in a dry day, let it lie 48 hours in 

 a cool room; then wrap each pear in soft paper, 

 and put the whole away in small boxes or kegs, 

 in an airy cellar, free from frost. As the season 

 for their maturity approaches, bring the boxes or 

 kegs into a warm room, and they will ripen finely 

 without shrivelling. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETINGS. 



Aug. 25, 1849.— President Samuel Walker in the chair 



Letters were received and read from the Westchester 

 County Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania, and the New- 

 Haven Horticultural Society, inviting a delegation from this 

 60ciety to be present at their respective annual exhibitions. 



Voted. That a minute of the reception of the letters be 

 made upon the records, and an acknowledgment forwarded 

 to the societies by the corresponding secretary. 



Vo'f.d. That a delegation, consisting of five members, be 

 appointed by the chair, to attend the annual exhibition of 

 the New-Haven Horticultural Society; and Messrs CM. 

 Hovey, Joseph Breck, Josiah Lovett, 2d., Ebeirr Wight 

 and \V. T. Austin, were appointed delegates 



Voted. That the societies to whom an invitation was ex- 

 tended last season, be invited to be present at the coming 

 annual exhibition. 



A communication was received from Lawrence Young, 

 Esq., Louisville, Kentucky, in regard to the use of lime, as 

 a preventive to the ravages of the curculio: and it was 

 voted, that the letter he placed in the hands of the commit- 

 tee of publication, to be printed with the " Transactions of 

 the Society." 



Sept. 1, 1849 —President Samuel Walker in the chair. 



Vot'd. That the exhibition previous and subsequent to the 

 annual exhibition be dispensed with. 



Voted. That the delegation appointed last season, with the 

 addition of three members to be appointed by the chair, be 

 a delegation to attend the meeting of the Congress of Fruit- 



Growers. to be holden in the city of New-York, Oct. 2, 1849 ; 

 and Messrs. C. M- Hovey, Ebe'r Wight and Wm. K. Aus- 

 tin, were added to complete the members of the delegation. 



Voted, That a delegation, consisting of five members, with 

 power to fill vacancies, be appointed by the chair, to attend 

 the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety, and the Westchester County Horticultural Society; 

 and Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, B. V. French, Cheever 

 Newhall, Wm. R. Austin and Joseph Breck, were appointed 

 delegates. 



Voted. That the President, with four members to be ap- 

 pointed by the chair, be a delegation to attend the annual 

 fair of the American Institute ; and the President, C. M. Ho- 

 vey, W B. Kingsbury, Eben'r Wight and Wm R. Austin, 

 were appointed delegates. 



Sept. 8, 1849. — President Samuel Walker in the chair. 

 A letter was received from Nicholas Longworth, Esq., 

 of Cincinnati, Ohio, accompanied with a box of wine, of 

 American manufacture ; and it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the society be presented to Mr. 

 Longworth, and the wine placed in the hands of the com- 

 mittee on fruits, to be exhibited at the annual exhibition, 

 and afterwards tested. 



Voted, That the Vice-Presidents of the society be a com- 

 miltee to receive and entertain the delegates who may be 

 present at the annual exhibition 



Edward C. R. Walker, 



Recording Secretary. 



