DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



a triflng misplaced etiquette, that science and 

 observation are to be put down. 



As the matter at present stands, in this in- 

 stance, your correspondent has proved little 

 more in his favor than positive assertion 

 founded upon presumptive evidence, — and 

 his assumed position is a wrong inference, for he 

 is surely aware that the desideratum is not so 

 much the hardiness, as to standing the severe 

 frosts of winter, but a constitutional power to 

 resist mildew during the growing season: and 

 though the former is a very desirable point, yet 

 it is a trifliiig matter compar(;d with the latter. 

 We know that in many situations far north of 

 this neighborhood, the foreign grapevine will 

 stand unprotected without injury; and if they 

 did not do so, we might cover them with earth, 

 as is done with the Fig and the vine in the vine- 

 yards in the steppes of Russia. I sincerely 

 hope that he has gained all that he asserts, but 

 under the circumstances it yet remains to be 

 proved, whether or no he has got a true cross, 

 for it may yet turn out to be nothing more than 

 an inferior variety direct from the Hamburgh, 

 as I know that seedlings from that variety often 

 answer the description of your correspondent ; 

 and those " who know" will look with skepti- 

 cism, at lea.'t, upon the experiment, until it has 

 been grown in different localities, and under va- 

 rious circumstances. And I repeat that he 

 would have made surer work of it, as regards 

 constitution, and most likely fruit, also, if the 

 Isabella had been crossed with the Hamburgh. 

 Although "practical experience" may some- 

 times prove my argument to be incorrect, Dr. 

 Valk has not yet shown it to be so — and if he 

 will give it a fair and unprejudiced further in- 

 vestigation, and as fairly submit his experience 

 thereon to public decision, I will willingly abide 

 by the verdict. If, acting in accordance with 

 the inscrutable and immutable laws of the all- 

 wise designer of the universe, is, in his estinia- 

 tion, catering aUa Barnum, he is welcome to 

 the delusion. What I stated is founded upon 

 the results of many experiments upon diffe- 

 rent tribes of plants ; it is a demonstrated fact, 

 and is supported by the authority of the most 

 scientific investigators of nature. 



I do not wish to be a disputant, nor to detract 

 le honor due to your correspondent, nnd 

 that he will receive these comments with 



as good feeling as they are jjenned. My desire 

 was to throw a mite into the treasusy of useful 

 knowledge, for the benefit of others, and if it 

 should liei'eafter realize my wishes, I care not 

 for his severe, but futile remarks. I am yours 

 most respectfully. Wm. Choklton. New- 

 Brighton, Staten-Island, July 15, 1852. 



Pruning in Autumn. — The late S. W.Cole, 

 who strongly recommended autumnal pruning 

 for fruit trees, says, '•' Thirty-two years ago, in 

 September, we cut a very large branch from an 

 apple tree, on account of an injury by a gale. 

 The tree was old, and it has never healed over, 

 but it is now sound, and almost as hard as liorn, 

 and the tree perfectly hard around it. A few 

 years before and after, large limbs were cut 

 from the same tiee in spring; and where they 

 were cut off the tree has rotted, so that a (piart 

 measure may be put in the cavity." — ^Ib. Culti- 

 vator. 



Dwarf Apples. — The Genesee Farmer states, 

 that a dwaif apple tree, seven years ])lanted, 

 and ten years old, the tree not over three feet 

 high, growing on the grounds of Aaron Erick- 

 son of Rochester, produced a Fall Pippin six- 

 teen inches in circumference and weighing 

 ttventy-six ounces. Two or three others were 

 nearly as large. Apples grow rather larger on 

 dwarfs than on standards. There is one inter- 

 esting question in connexion with this subject, 

 that we would like to have answered, viz : At 

 what price Cduld such apples, thus grown on 

 dwarfs, be afforded per bushel, as a general 

 average for seasons and cultivation and the cost 

 of a crop per acre, — and the comparative value 

 with otlier apples in market. — Albany Cultiva- 

 tor. 



Slutirra nf Inrirtirs. 



Albany and Rensselaer Hort. Society. 



The firsl exliiliilion for ]s5'2. look plnre !it tlie N. Y. 

 .Stale Agricuilural Socieiy Rooms on the 22(1 .luiie ; the 

 floral display, both in beauty and variety, eclipsed tiiat of 

 any former exliilnlion ; and taking: into consideration the 

 unusual drouih, the display ol fruits and vegelahles ex- 

 ceeded all anticipations. 



The Society met at 12 M., Dr. Herman AVendell, its 

 President, in the chair, when tlie following genilemen 

 were chosen delegates to represent it in the American Po- 

 mological Congress, which is to convene in Philadelphia 

 on the 13lh of .September next, viz: V. P. Douw, Her- 

 man AA'endell, M. D, James AVilsou. B. B. Kirtland, D. 

 T. Vail, B. P. .Johnson. Luther Tucker, and E. Dorr. 



The following gentlemen 1o rejircstnt it at the Autumnal 

 Exhibition of the IMassachnsells Horticultural .Society: 

 viz — Joel Ralhbone, S. E. Warren. C. P. Williams, Jef- 

 ferson Mayell, Wm. Ncwcomb, AVni. A. AVharton, and 

 Amos Brigggs 



And the following to represent it at the Aniumnal Exhi- 

 bition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, viz: E. 

 P. Prentice, E. Corning, Jr., AVm. Janes, J. S. Goold, 

 h. Menand, Dr. Jolni \A'ilson. and W A. IMcCulloch. 



Tlierc was a very fine exhibition of Strawberries, Mr. 

 Ralhbone. of Kenwood, exhibitins <even. James AA'ilson 

 four. n. n. Kirlland icn, C. P. Williams six. and J. S. 

 Goold sixteen varieties. The premiuui for iht finest fla- 

 vored variely was awarded to Burr's New Pine. 





