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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



ami ventilating, houses, churches, or public build* 

 ings of any kind, in t lie most complete method 

 yrt known to us, to call at the warehouse of 

 Messrs. Chilson, Allen, Walker & Co., 351 

 Broadway, New- York, or Chilson, Dunklee & 

 Co., 53 Blackstone street, Huston, where they 

 will see Emerson's patent ventilating apparatus, 

 and Chilton's furnace, the merits of which have 

 been fully proved in all the public schools, and a 

 great number of private houses in Boston, and 

 which are such as must bring thou into general 

 use. Information regarding the process of warm- 

 ing and ventilation will be cheerfully given at 

 these warehouses, to all persons interested in the 

 subject. 



The Boston School-Ventilating stove may also 

 be seen at these warehouses. It is the only coal 

 stove we have ever seen that does not vitiate the 

 atmosphere — and as it has an air chamber connect- 

 ed by an air-duct passing under the bottom of the 

 Stove (through the floor,) to the open air, a vol- 

 ume of pure fresh air is constantly brought into 

 the apartment while it is being warmed. This 

 stove appears to us to be perfectly suited for 

 warming small green-houses or plant cabinets, as 

 the Polmaise mode of heating, (the most perfect 

 of all methods for the health of plants,) may be 

 effected by this stove in the easiest possible man- 

 ner. We shall give a cut of this stove and some 

 particulars hereafter. 



Rose Cuttings. — A friend of mine thinks he is 

 in possession of a great secret with regard to rai- 

 sing roses from the slip or cutting. His plan is to 

 stick the cutting about an inch deep into clean ri- 

 ver sand, (if it is not clean to work it clean,) and 

 as soon as the rootlets arc formed, to place them 

 in -sakiSbly prepared soil, or let the soil be beneath 

 the sand at the right depth for the roots to strike 

 into — say an inch or perhaps a little more. He 

 says he does not loose one in twenty. The sand, 

 which of course is kept moist, prevents the wood 

 from rotting. My brother, Dr. C. E. M. has suc- 

 ceeded in this way, when every other experiment 

 has failed. [This method, which we have prac- 

 ticed years ago, is an excellent one. Ed.] /. 

 R. M. Chalk Level, Va., Nov. 10, 1849. 



Fine Indigenous Plum. — A. J. Downing, Esq. 

 Dear Sir: I herewith enclose you some plum seed 

 that I found in a wild state on a small creek near 

 this place, some few years since, and introduced 

 it to my garden. It is superior to any plum I 

 have ever seen for preserving. It is purple, and 

 covered with a rich bloom, and is very handsome, 

 much more so than the Dawson. It has improved 

 much by cultivation, is a never-failing bearer; a 

 low spreading tree of rather slow growth; mine 

 has never been injured by frost or curculio: has 

 borne for seven years in my garden. This year, 

 one tree had about two bushels on it. I never 

 have found it growing except at one place in this 

 state. I think you will be highly pleased with it, 



and it will be a great acquisition to your fine as- 

 sortment of fruit. I think it superior to the Daw- 

 son or Frost Gage, as a preserving plum, which 

 has induced me to send the seed to you, knowing 

 that you were fond of something rare and new. 

 Respectfully, yours, &c., A. A. Clcavcland. 

 Washington, Wilkes Co. Ga., November 2, 1849. 

 [Many thanks. We think from the appearance 

 of the plum-stones, the species is one not at all 

 known here, and we will gladly give it a trial. 

 Ed.] 



McLaughlin Plum — We have organised a hor- 

 ticultural society in Bangor, and had our first ex- 

 hibition on the 13th and 14th of September. The 

 display of fruits was really imposing for the first 

 effort, and more especially that of plums, having 

 on our tables most of the A'arieties noticed in your 

 work on " fruit and fruit trees." For beauty, 

 large size and fine flavor, none attracted more at- 

 tention than the McLaughlin plum, a native of 

 Bangor. The committee on fruits decided it was 

 superior to any other plum on our tables, with the 

 single exception of the Green Gage. B. F. 

 Nourse, Esq., of our society, sent a box of the 

 McLaughlin plums to the Massachusetts Hort. So- 

 ciety, and President Walker informs me that their 

 society also came to the same decision. Respect- 

 fully, Henry Little. Bangor, Me., Sept., 1849. 

 [The foregoing was sent us some time ago, but 

 was accidentally mislaid. The McLaughlin plum 

 is spoken of by all eastern pomologists as a great 

 acquisition to this class of fruits — of the best qua- 

 lity as regards flavor and appearance, and remark- 

 ably hardy and productive. Ed.] 



Trees in Towns and Villages. — We marked 

 the following for insertion some time ago, but it 

 has been delayed — though not too late, for it is 

 never too late to urge the advantage of embellish- 

 ing rural villages with shade trees. It is the re- 

 port of the Rockingham Farmers' Club, Exeter, 

 N. H. — and is worthy of being " printed in gold" 

 and hung up in every village in the country — 

 where it would be a capital kind of punishment, 

 to hang up in like manner all who are not induced 

 by it to become tree planters. Ed. 



As to the failure of success in planting trees, 

 we have something to say. — So long as it is true, 

 that by far the greater part of the trees set by 

 the streets in our village perish in the first two 

 years — while of those properly set and protected, 

 not one in ten is lost, it must be evident that ac- 

 curate knowledge on the subject is still wanting, 

 and in hope of aiding to supply that want, we pro- 

 pose to suggest, in a practical form, our views 

 upon the subject. And first as to 



The kind of Trees. — Above all others, for the 

 street, the Elm is to be preferred. For beauty, 

 gracefulness, grandeur even, it has no equal in 

 New England. Besides, it is hardy, long-lived, 

 easily procured, and free from the attacks of in. 

 sects and disease. The Rock-maple comes nex t 



