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tlie influence of warm periods in starting tlie 

 buds, and to tlie fact that after tlie severest 

 cold, the sun >vas obscured by a curtixin of 

 clouds. He had observed that buds were often 

 de.'itroj-ed on tlie sunny side of branches, while 

 t]R>se which were thawed gradually ou the 

 shaded side liad escaped. 



II. E. Hooker, of Rochester, had known peach- 

 es at Montreal, where the thermometer not iin- 

 frcqnently falls to 20** or more below zero, sav- 

 ed by the simple protection of a mat, [which 

 could not have increased thewarmtli of the air, 

 but only prevented radiation, and excluded the 

 sun's rays.] He remarked tliat budded trees 

 consisted of nothing ln;t selected seedlings, and 

 that he liad usually tound theni to endure the 

 cold best. 



C. M. Ilovey thought Imddcd trees the har- 

 diest, because they usually consisted of such va- 

 rieties as were of strongest growth. 



P. Barry Iiad known native seedlings, stand- 

 ing for many years in grass, loaded with heavy 

 crops, wlien, had they been cultivated, they 

 might have been barren. This, C. M. Ilovey 

 ascribed to the uell ripened, and not succulent 

 growth which they ac(piired. He considered 

 some varieties as liardy, and others as tender, 

 entirely independent of tiie influence of bud- 

 ding. 



A list of those sorts which were hardiest, and 

 which bore most uniformly and abundantly after 

 severe winters, being called for, CM. Hovey 

 named the following: — Yellow Rareripe, Coo- 

 ledge'sFavorite, BellegardeandOIdinixon Free. 

 Several gentlemen from Western New- York 

 named tlie Early Barnard, or Alberge of that 

 region, as being eminently hardy and uniformly 

 productive. John Morse of Cayuga Bridge, had 

 found Jacques' Rareripe to be the hardiest and 

 best peach for market, out of some forty sorts, 

 and Early Barnard next. J. J. Thomas named 

 Fay's Early Ann, which he had fruited for eight 

 years, as one of the most uniformly productive 

 of early peaches; in two different years, when 

 the Tillotson and Serrate Early York had near- 

 ly fiiiled, this had borne good crops. The pre- 

 sent very unproductive season, the White Im- 

 perial has also borne fully. 



A list of such pears as had grouni well on 

 quince stocks, and had borne good crops for se- 

 veral years, without exhausting the tree, was 



next called for, and the following proposed, 

 witliout objection: 



Louise Bonne of Jersey, Vicar of AVinkfield, 

 GloutMoi'cean, Beurre Diel, Angouleme, White 

 and Gray Doyenne, Napoleon, Beurre d' Ama- 

 lis, Easter Beurre, Soldat Laboreur, Long 

 Green of Autumn, and Striped Long Green of 

 Autumn, Henry IV, Summer Frankreal, Ber- 

 gamotte Cadette, Madeleine, Beurre d' Anjou, 

 Urbaniste, and Dovenne Boussock. 



New- York Hort. Society. 



The second exhibition of this Society was 

 held on the 20th, 21st, 22d, and 23d of Sept., 

 at the Metropolitan Hall, New- York, and we 

 rejoice to say was very successful and credita- 

 ble to the managers of this new society. 



We say rejoice, because, now that the diffu- 

 sion of horticultural knowledge is so rapidly in- 

 creasing avnonst us, and the commendable spi- 

 rit of enterprise in this branch of science is 

 aroused' — we are glad to see progress in the 

 right direction ; and the more so as it was most 

 unpardonable for the " Empire State" to be 

 lagging behind, when the prosperity of such so- 

 cieties as those of Massachusetssand Pennsylva- 

 nia, not to name the numerous others equally 

 praiseworthy, have long set so good an example. 



The first exhibition of this Society was held 

 in June last, when, from the evidence we then 

 saw of an eartnestness of purpose about the ori- 

 ginators of the meeting, we augured well of the 

 prosperity of the Society; while the encour- 

 agement which we saw was extended to it by 

 some of the most celebrated amateur cultiva- 

 tors, manifested amongst others, by the kind 

 consideration of Mr. Cope, in sending from his 

 splendid collection a specimen of the far famed 

 Victoria Lily, satisfied us that nothing but per- 

 severance is necessary to render this Society 

 prominent in its amiable rivalry with its more 

 matured sisters in other parts of the country. 



The present exhibition convinces us that our 

 prognostications have not been ill founded. It 

 was not nevertheless without some mi.sgivings 

 as to the result tliat we wended our way on the 

 20th to Metropolitan Hall ; wishing well as we 

 do, in all sincerity, to this and every other 

 rightly directed effort in the furtherance of our 

 favorite science. For, having ourselves had a 

 pretty extended experience in these k 

 things, we are w^ell aware of the numerous 



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