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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



strikes us that ii be Heed as a substitute for a 



furnaoe in beating green-houses, by the Polmaise 

 mode. It might be placed in a smalJ chamber 

 behind the green-house, or below the level of the 

 floor, or perhaps under the back stage. In the 

 latter case, the doors for putting in eoals and 

 taking out ashes should open into a separate little 

 enclosed space, so that the dust made in lighting 

 fires should not get upon the plants. 



These stoves are made of various sizes, and 

 may be seen at the warehouses, 51 Blackstone- 

 street, Boston, and 351 Broadway, New-York. 



Report of the Congress of Fruit Grow- 

 ers. — We learn by a note from Mr. Parsons, 

 the Secretary of this body, that the American 

 Institute, which kindly ottered last October, to 

 print this report, has " decided to defer publishing 

 it, (the report) until the type is set up for the 

 State Agricultural report, in which the proceed- 

 ings of the Institute arc always included." 



We regret this decision extremely, since it is 

 not probable that the report will now appear till 

 the latter part of winter. Had this statement 

 been made at the meeting in New York, the re- 

 port would have been published at once, by volun- 

 tary subscription of those present. 



We suggest, in order to prevent this difficulty 

 in future, that a small fund be contributed by the 

 Various Horticultural Societies, sending delegates 

 to the Pomological Congress, to defray this ex- 

 pense of publishing the reports, &c, that the 

 Congress shall not be dependent upon the action 

 of other bodies for the prompt appearance of its 

 proceedings, which are a matter of interest to a 

 large number of persons in every state in the 

 Union. .... 



Great Sale of Green-House Plants.— A 

 small ship load of exotics, chiefly Camellias, 

 from the house of Seidell in Saxony, arrived in 

 this country, and was sold at public auction on the 

 6th and 7th of December last, at 594 Broadw r ay, 

 New York. Great numbers of fruit trees are 

 sent to this country, by foreign nurseries every 

 year, but. this is the first large consignment of 

 green-house plants that we have seen offered at 

 public sale. There were about 5000 plants. Pro- 

 bably two-thirds of these were Camellias, from 

 1 foot to 9 feet high, the tall ones rather lean 

 and slim specimens. They brought prices from 

 25 cents to a couple of dollars each, probably 

 averaging 40 cents-— rather a poor speculation 

 we fear, for the Dresden florist. The plants 

 were in good order, but had mostly lost their flow- 

 er buds— a misfortune for the salesman and the 

 owner, as a Camellia is no Camellia in New 

 York if it does not " promise to" bloom within 

 60 days. There were some dozens of tolerable 

 Rhodsdondrons, and some fine lots of hardy Aza- 

 leas and Tree Pceonias ; which two latter genera 

 went off at fair prices. 



Box Edging. — I have examined the Horticultu- 



rist from the first to the last number, in quest of 

 information how to propagate the different varie« 

 ties of Box, especially the Edging Box, or Buxus 

 sempervirens. I have tried to grow cutting.- re« 

 peatedly, but with such poor success that I have 

 coinc to the conclusion there must be abetter 

 mode than I am acquinted with, therefore you will 

 oblige me if you can find space in the January 

 Horticulturist for some advice on this subject. 

 Yours, &c, /. N. Dayton, Va. 



It is very easy to raise box edgings after the 

 following mode; As early in the spaing as the 

 ground is settled, prepare the place where your 

 edging is to be planted, not by digging, but by 

 simply smoothing or levelling it. Next provide 

 some cuttings, which should be from six to eight 

 inches long— the leaves all being stripped off, ex- 

 cept a tuft of about two inches at the top, Stretch 

 a line, and after having pressed the soil under it 

 firmty with the foot, next with a spade make a 

 slit along it, deep enough to take in the cuttings. 

 Then plant the cuttings by pushing them down 

 this slit, until two-thirds of the cutting is below 

 ground ; afterwards take a small pounder and 

 pound lightly along the whole line of cuttings so 

 as to bring the soil closely in contact with the 

 face and sides of the cuttings, as on this mainly 

 depends their taking root well. They may now 

 be well watered, and if the season is not very dry, 

 will need no farther attention. In very dry soils 

 it is a good practice, in order to ensure the growth 

 of cuttings, to place boards edgewise, like the 

 roof of a bouse, over the cuttings— leaving them 

 there for six weeks, except when it rains. Ed. 



Smokehouse Apple.— In your valuable periodi- 

 cal, vol. 3., p. 333, is given a description and 

 partial history of our favorite Smokehouse apple, 

 that conveys an erroneous impression, which nei- 

 ther the writer nor the President of the Chester 

 Co. Hort. So. designed. 



Mr. Ashbridge may have introduced it to no- 

 tice in his and the president's neighborhood, but 

 Mr. Connard, a reputable nurseryman in the 

 vicinity of its origin, (Lancaster Co., Perm., near 

 Millcreek, hence the synonym Millcreek Vande- 

 vere,) introduced it to notice almost a half a cen- 

 tury since. There are trees in that county with 

 which I am acquainted, that have borne fruit more 

 than thirty years. 



Here then is a new variety of apple in cultiva- 

 tion more than a quarter of a century, and known 

 to comparatively few out of its neighborhood ; 

 one, too, so much esteemed, that most of its culti- 

 vators there, if confined to only one or " three," 

 would unhesitatingly select this; because it is an 

 improvement in size, vigor and productiveness, on 

 the old favorite Vandevere, which I perceive has 

 received the sanction of the A. P. C. It will 

 keep until April, and cooks well in September. 



How illustrative is this, of the wide uncultivated 

 field lying open for pomological investigation and 

 improvement. Let us then, with renewed effort 



