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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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some luscious in taste — they came from II. W. 

 Cleveland, Bui'lington, Isaac P. Baxter, M. W. 

 Roe, of Woodbury, A. M. Eastwick, J. P. 

 Gushing, Mass. — the Dix, and a specimen of the 

 pound variety weighing twenty-two ounces, 

 from the slate foir at llarrisburgh. Three 

 tempting bunches of Black Hamburgh Grapes 

 were displayed by H. W. S. Cleveland. Seve- 

 ral dishes of Apples were exhibited, and were 

 from David Miller, Jr., Lancaster co. The 

 Fuller, Walder, Pittsburgh Pippin, Better than 

 Good, and Herman's Favorite. James II. 

 Watts of Rochester — the Northern Si)y — C. 

 Lee, Penn-Yan, the Wagoner; Mathew McKie, 

 the Clyde Beauty. Of vegetables, Anthony 

 Fuller, Jr., exhibited an extensive display ; and 

 Maurice Finn, gardener to Mr. Lambert, John 

 Gallagher, gardener to Miss Gratz, and Thos. 

 Mcehan, gardener to A. M. Eastwick, very cre- 

 ditable displays. 



The President in a few remarks, in acknow- 

 ledgment to the society for the honor conferred 

 upon him at the last meeting, by the award of 

 the gold medal for his success in the cultivation 

 of the Victoria Regia, announced that he had 

 just received a very interesting letter from Sir 

 Wm. J. Hooker, which was read, expressing 

 his gratification at his success in cultivating the 

 Victoria, stating the fact of his having sent seeds 

 to Calcutta and the West Indies, where flour- 

 ishing plants had beeen grown and seeded abun- 

 dantly in the open waters. Mr. Cope remark- 

 ed, that the plant which he had growing in his 

 garden tank, had two flower buds when 't was 

 taken up recently. 



A communication from A. II. Ernst, presi- 

 dent of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 

 was read, desiring that the great exhibitions of 

 the prominent horticultural societies should he 

 held at such times as would give the members 

 of each society an opportunity of visiting each 

 other's display, and thus derive information mu- 

 tually beneficial. The subject was referred to 

 the appropriate committee. 



December 1(3, 1851. — The extreme seve- 

 rity of the weather precluded an extensive dis- 

 play, yet a number of objects of interest were 

 shown; of which were a collection of plants, 

 new, and recently introduced, and presented by 

 Robert R. Scott, consisting of D rimy s Winterii. 

 opogon fastuosum, Illicium religiosum, 



Franciscea eximia, Veronica Andersonii and 

 Hibiscus, sp. The President's gardener exhi- 

 bited a beautiful and neat table design, and a 

 large and very handsome basket of the choicest 

 flowers; in the latter were specimens oi Phala- 

 nopsis amabilis, rare, and other new and valua- 

 ble OrchidacecE. Mr. Dundas' gardener brought 

 in a very large and fine pyramidal bouquet of 

 fruit. H. W. S. Cleveland exhibited three large 

 bunches of Black Hamburgh Grapes. Isaac P. 

 Baxter, dishes of Pears of the Passe Colmar 

 and Vicar of Winkflcld varieties. Of vegeta- 

 bles, there were seen very large specimens of 

 potatoes and onions, grown in California, and 

 shown by Wm. H. Evans. Very extensive ta- 

 bles of esculents in great variety, were present- 

 ed by Anthony Felten, Jr., and Miss Gratz's 

 gardener. 



The committee for establishing premiums re- 

 ported a schedule for the coming year, which 

 was adopted by the Society. Tho. P. James, 

 Recording Secretary. 



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Half Hardy Plants. — W. P., (AuburU; 

 N. Y.) Chinese Azaleas arc almost hardy. 

 Messrs. Hogg, of N. Y., keep them in com- 

 mon frames — a box of boards covered with 

 glass — and the latter sheltered by a few mats 

 in very severe weather. Most of the Fuchsias 

 may be wintered in a pit without heat — espe- 

 cially if the pit is dry and sunk a couple effect 

 below the level of the ground. We doubt if 

 the Araucaria or Chili Pine will prove hardy 

 with you. If. it does, it will only he on very 

 dry, sandy soil. Plumbago Larpentce is found 

 hardy about Is'ew-York, in a dry soil and a 

 shaded situation. It bloomed abundantly and 

 was very showy from August to November. 



Green Houses. — J Lady, (Norwich.) From 

 the account you give, we have no doubt your 

 plants suffer from the dry hot-air caused by the 

 flues being heated to a high temperature to 

 keep out frost. Yon should keep a large tin 

 vessel filled with water on the hottest part of 

 the flue and if you can contrive to introduce a 

 stream of fresh air from outside and let it pass 

 over a portion of the flues, so as to come into 

 the house warm, you will find the health of the 

 plants amazingly Improved by it. A 

 brick chamber formed around the furnace 



