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Airas cheaper and better to pack trees in boxes, when it can be done, as most of the roads 

 Mall then carry them at the rates of other light goods ; this is a correct move. Mr. B. does 

 not hesitate to puMish the names of those who do not do their duty in this matter ; a re- 

 form is expected. Mr. Ernst said his only hope for cherries, in the region of Cincinnati, 

 was the mahaleb stock, and the pyramid form, which has branches to the ground to 

 furnish protection fi-oni the vicissitudes of summer changes ; for standards he recommended 

 budding the finer varieties at some height, making the body of the mahaleb stock. Mr. 

 lilliott had practised root pruning on the pear root, and had produced fruit just as early as 

 if grown on quince ; he did not recommend planting on the quince root, unless growers ex- 

 pected to cultivate their trees highly, and nurse them as carefully as a woman tends her 

 child. As a general tree for orchard culture, he thought the quince stock shovild not be 

 used. This agrees with the results arrived at in the New York meeting, and coincides with 

 the opinion of our correspondent. Dr. Ward. A very good committee was appointed to at- 

 tend the National Convention, at Rochester, the coming fall. There is much to interest in 

 the work, including the address of President Ernst. 



TuE Brooklyn Horticultural Society's premiums for 1856, embrace a great variety of 

 jjlants and vegetables. 



The Traxsactioxs of the Wisconsin Feuit Growers' Society have been published at Mil- 

 waukie, in a liandsome pamphlet of sixty pages, which contain matter of much instruction. 

 They reached our table after this number was ready for the press. 



Mount Vernon HoRTicrLTtJRAL Society. — Its Constitution and By-Laws are upon our table, 

 but, except that it is printed in New York City, there is no clue to the place where said 

 Society is located. 



The Proceedings of the Fruit Grower's Society of Western New York have been published, 

 making a very valuable work for reference, of 140 pages. Thirty cents, in postage stamps, 

 remitted to II. E. Hooker, Rochester, will procure a copy. 



Toe " North Western Farmer," Issued at Dubuque, Iowa, appears to us to meet the wants 

 of that region remarkably. The lady at the head of the " Ladies' Department" would 

 grace any position. 



The Premium List of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, for 1856, is most liberal. 

 The $100 premium for a cheap, practical and efficient remedy for the curculio is continued, 

 and $500 for a new hardy grape, a good bearer, making a light colored wine, superior in all 

 respects to the Catawba, as a still and simrkling. Our friends should keep a bright lookout, 

 and pick up the money. 



Refjolutions of the Horticultural Society. — At a late meeting of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society, the following extraordinary preamble and resolutions were adopted in re- 

 ference to the proposed supplement to the Act of Consolidation, authorizing the Councils to 

 sell the Centre Squares, at Market and Broad Streets, and purchase more extensive grounds : — 



Whereas, This Society has in view, as among the objects of its creation, the rural adorn- 

 ment of our city, the securing of pure air, and necessary recreation for the greatest number 

 of its inhabitants, and the promotion of the prosperity and happiness of its entire people by 

 multiplying the means for a cultivated taste in the walks of nature. Be it, tlierefore. 



Resolved, That tlie proposition for the sale of the "Centre Square," and the conversion of 

 the proceeds thereof into more extended accommodations for the benefit of the public, meets 

 with the cordial concurrence of this Society. 



Resolved, That this Society regards those plots of ground known as the " Centre Square" 

 as too diminutive to attract any considerable number of visitors, and the resort to them on 

 tlie part of the young as attended with no little danger, on account of the proximity of the 

 railways, and the conseciuent peril of crossing them whilst the cars are in motion. 



Resolved, That this Society would rejoice to see the " Centre S(juare" occupied for busi- 

 ness purposes, as it was originally intended to be by the great founder of the city ; whilst 

 the public would gain largely by its exchange for other grounds in more eligible portions of 

 it. 



Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and these resolutions, signed by the President and 



