DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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to my chagrin, my flourishing shoots as drooping 

 and flaccid as wet strin!;s. I immediately sought 

 out the cause and as quickly applied a remedy, viz : 

 Three or four pails full of warm soap suds, poured 

 over the stem and roots, and well covered again 

 with warm dung. At noon I visited my patient, and 

 found it not only convalescent, but as erect and 

 vigorous as though nothing had happened — but 

 alas! the fruit did not set. I lost the entire crop 

 in the house, but on the outside, I was inclined to 

 think, I had an additional quantity. 



I will also add the result of this experiment 

 for the last year — which was, that one bunch 

 of the Isabella, grown only a few feet re- 

 moved, but under glass, was, for quality of flavor, 

 size, &c., worth three bunches of the outside ones. 

 I have this fall trenched and prepared a border 40 

 feet long by 9 wide for some new vines, and feel 

 anxious that this point of outside versus insitle 

 planting should be settled upon just principles. 

 Very truly yours, W. R. Copvock. hxiffalo, Jan. 

 5, 1847. 



P. S. — Will not the accomplished President of 

 the Mass. Hort. Society favor your readers with an 

 article on his peculiar treatment of the Camellia, 

 for which he is celebrated? IF. C. R- 



[The cheap vinery in our No. 6, alluded to by 

 our correspondent, is what is technically called a 

 cold vinery, in which the vines are not to be 

 forced into an earlier growth by fire heat. In 

 such circumstances it is usually considered prefer- 

 able to have the border for the roots outside of the 

 house, because it saves a great deal of the trouble 

 involved by the necessity of constantly watering a 

 border inside. Besides in this case an outside 

 border is quite sufliciently warmed by the sun at 

 the late season in spring at which the vine, not 

 forced, begins to grow. — Ed.] 



The American Holly. — Will you inform me 

 through the colums of your valuable Journal, of 

 the proper season for transplanting the American 

 Holly (Ilex opaca) from the wootls. I have been 

 very unsuccessful with them. Also, in what man- 

 ner the seed should be treated to insure their 

 growth. 



Many of our apple growers complain of their 

 apples not keeping, and attribute it to the drouth 

 we had in the early part of autumn. Can that be 

 the cause? and if so, could it not be prevented by 

 putting a large portion of well rotted Tan about 

 each tree. Yours, truly, jl Subscriber. New Jer- 

 sey, Dec. 28, 1846. 



Answer. — The best time to transplant the Ame- 

 rican Holly is in spring, just as the buds are slight- 

 ly swollen. The roots must not be suffered to 



become dry in the least during or before trans- 

 planting. 



The seeds of the Holly will no*, v^.retate till the 

 second year. They should be gathered when they 

 are ripe, anil buried (partiallj' mixed with earth) 

 in a heap or square bottomless box, in any spare 

 corner of the garden. Here they will remain till 

 the next spring, tlie earth where they lie being 

 turned once or twice to facilitate the decay of the 

 berry. Early in the spring, take up the seeds, and 

 plant them lialf an inch deep, in a bed of good 

 soil, in a situation rather shaded and not too dry. 

 They will vegetate freely in Maj^. 



We do not think the drouth has to do with the 

 rapid decay of apples this season, because the for- 

 mer was local, and the latter we understand is very 

 general. — Ed. 



Root-Grafting — Mr. Phcenix has given (p. 

 2S0) an admirable article on this subject, — really 

 one of the most plain and practical articles that I 

 have ever read. Why not work the apricot, and 

 the peach, on roots, as he does the apple? I have 

 seen peaches that were rout-grafted this year; 

 they are now 7 feet high ! Yours with esteem, M. 

 W . Philips. Log Hall, Edwards, Miss., Dec. 

 27, 1846. 



Groseii.le Cerise, or Cherry Currant. — 

 This very handsome fruit has not, I think, been 

 introduced to American gardens, nor is it to be 

 found in any of the nursery men's catalogues The 

 honor of introducing so remarkable antl beautiful 

 a slirub to the gardens of France, belongs to Mons. 

 Adrien Senecl.auze, a distinguished horticultu- 

 rist of Bourgargental, (Loire.) He received it 

 from Italy, among a lot of other currants, known 

 there by the common name of Ribes acerifolium. 

 The above appellation was given bj' Mons. S., ia 

 consequence of the extraordinary size of the fruit. 

 It first fruited in 1S43, in the nursery of the Muse- 

 um of Natural History, and from the plants there 

 grown, a figure was given in the .^hmales de Flo- 

 re ct de Pomone, for February, 1S44. 



It is a vigorous growing bush, with handsome 

 foliage, of bright green on the upper side of the 

 leaf, and 'pale beneath. The fruit is very large, 

 spherical and of a fine crimson color, more or less 

 deej), according to maturity. Upon the ilessert 

 table it malces a fine appearance, and the flavor is 

 very agreeable. 



Genuine plants may be had of Messeiurs Jac- 

 Q,uiN, freres, nursery men, near Paris, ami seve- 

 ral others. I have a few plants, but they have not 

 yet borne fruit. ]Vin. W. Valle, M. 1). Flush- 

 ing, L. I., Dec. 5, 1846. 



