DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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Geafting. — B. (Rushville,0.) All the va- 

 rieties of iiorse chestnut may either be grafted 

 or budded on the Ohio Buckeye. The Spruce 

 of your forests is not a very good stock fin- 

 working other evergreens upon. The retail 

 price of the Landscape Gardening is $3.00, of the 

 Cottage Residences $2.00. 



Summer Treatment of Green-house 

 Plants. — .4 Lover of Flowers. In order to get 

 a fine bloom from your plants in winter, j'ou 

 should not allow them to run into rank growth 

 in summer. Do not plunge the pots in the bor- 

 ders, but choose a half shaded spot on the north 

 side of a hedge, paling fence, or low building; 

 the ground firm, and lay three inches of hard 

 coal ashes over it. On this place the pots with 

 room enough for each plant on every side. If 

 the plants are pinched for room, you may shift 

 them into larger pots before hand. Prune the 

 heads of all into good shape, except such plants 

 as have already set their flower buds for next 

 winter, as the Camellia. If the pots are half 

 sunk in coal ashes, (keeping 2 inches of it un- 

 der them,) it will keep them all the cooler. 

 Water regularly every evening, and in the morn- 

 ing, when the weather is hot and dry. The roots 

 will not run through in the coal ashes, as they 

 do in the soil, and if you give the plants proper 

 attention to watering, j'ou will find they are in 

 excellent flowering condition in autumn, not 

 having exhausted themselves by creeping 

 through the pots, and having their best roots 

 broken at the lifting season. Before they go 

 into the house in autumn, the roots should be 

 examined — those that want fresh potting should 

 have it, and the others must have the surface 

 of the soil renewed. The greatest error that all 

 novices make in cultivating green-house plants, 

 is in putting them in improper soil. The best 

 and safest compost for all plants, where you are 

 your own gardener, is two-thirds leaf mould, 

 (entirely decayed leaves, to be found in the 

 woods,) and one-third fine sand. Anything 

 will grow in this, and a great many things will 

 not grow without it. 



Names or Fruits.' — ^ New- York Subscriber. 

 Colmar d'Aremberg, and Bcurre d'Aremberg, 

 o very distinct fruits. The serrated leav- 

 ly York; is one of the finest early peach- 



es, higher flavored than the other variety with 

 glanded leaves. 



Bedding Plants. — j1. P. (Trenton, N. J.) 

 You make your beds too rich for the Scarlet 

 Geraniums, and therefore they run to leaf. 

 They want the full sunshine, and a light, deep 

 soil, not rich. Hydrangeas make a splendid 

 bed, and may be kept there all winter by cov- 

 ering them with tan, and then turning a box 

 over the tan to keep it dry. The White Salvia 

 patens is for sale by all the leading florists. 



Insects on the Vine. — Dr. Bute, (Naza- 

 reth, Pa.) The gray insect you describe is the 

 vine-hopper. Provide yourself with one of 

 Brown's Patent Fumigators. (to be had at Bu- 

 ist's, Seedsman, Philadelphia,) and passa stream 

 of tobacco smoke under the foliage of every 

 \ine in your vinery — afterwards filling the house 

 W'ith smoke, and shutting it up all night. If 

 the day is damp, the application will be more 

 effectual; two or three operations of this kind 

 will rid you of this pest. The cause of the rot 

 on the hardy vines is not fully known. It is 

 possibly a fungus — the seeds of which float in the 

 air. In a vineyard of an acre which we have, 

 we have found that carefully picking out all the 

 diseased berries, as fast as the rot makes its ap- 

 pearance, entirely puts a stop to it here, but it 

 might not where it is very prevalent. 



Rose Slugs. — Eliza, (Brooklyn, N. Y.) A 

 decoction of tobacco, about the color of weak 

 black tea, thrown on the under side of the leaves 

 of j'our roses, will destroy the slugs. Repeat 

 it twice, just at sunset, and you will get rid 

 of them — otherwise they entirely devour the 



leaves, leaving only the skeleton. 



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American Pomological Congress. 



Ill compliiiiice witli a resolulioii passed by the American 

 Pomological Coiiu^ress:, during its session nt Cincinnati, 

 in Ocloher, IS.'jO, it becomes my duty publicly to an- 

 nounce tlial tlie next session will be held at tliecily of Phi- 

 ladelphia, rn Monday, the ]3(/( day of September, ]8.5'2. 

 The Congress will assemble at 1(1 o'clock. A. ,\I , in the 

 Chinese Sluseum Building, .South Ninth-street, below 

 Chesnmt. 



Tne Pomological. Horticultural, and Agricultural .~'oci- 

 eties throughout the I'niied .Sla'es and Canada, are invited 

 to send such number of delegates as l hey may deem expedi- 

 ent. And the deleg.ates are requested to bring with them 

 specimens of the Fruits of their respeclivedi^iricts. 



Packages, and Boxes of Fruit for the Congress, may 

 be direcled to the care of Thomas P. .James, Esq , No. 

 212 .Market-street, Philadelphia, should the owners be una 

 ble to give tlieir personal attendance. 



The various .Stale Fruit Committees enumerated 

 subjoined list, 'will, on or before the day of meeliii: 

 mil their several reports to A. J. Downing, Esq 



