HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES; 



Knight's Tall Marroio, is the best of the tall late peas, bearing along time, and giving 

 a good crop. It is some objection to this sort, that it grows six feet high, and requires 

 more room and pains in staking, than KnighVs Dwarf Marrow, but it is a better and 

 more prolific pea in strong soils. I am content with the Champion of England — a pea 

 of the same class, and, therefore, should only cultivate this for variety, and for its being 

 a little later. The Waterloo is something like it, but no so good. 



Every body knows how to cook peas, or at least every body thinks so — and everj'- body 

 hails them. That is excellent, but by no means tlie only way to taste this vegetable in 

 perfection; an Old Digger may not be supposed to know much about cooking, but in fact 

 no place lies so close to the kitchen as the kitchen-garden, and it must be a dull digger who 

 does not know something of what the cook does with his "truck." So I will tell you 

 that the neatest little dishes that any cook ever sends to the table, are very small joints of 

 lamb or veal, or perhaps a pair of spring chickens, stewed in a close pot or stew-pan very 

 gently, over a slow fire, for two or three hours, till quite done, ivith peas ; — butter, pep- 

 per, and salt, being added, of course. The juices of the meat penetrate the peas, and the 

 flavor of the peas is given to the whole dish, so that I doubt if there was more savory 

 dishes among the flesh-pots of Egypt, than one of these stews. These are the dishes for 

 the dinners of small families, instead of the eternal steaks and cutlets, more than half of 

 the time fried instead of broiled, that stare us in the face, " year in and year out," and 

 which nobody can eat for a long time, without a fit of indigestion, unless it be some one 

 who lives out of doors pretty much the whole time, and becomes as hardy as. 



Yours, An Old Digger. 



I^nrtirttlttirnl InriEttPSf. 



Mass. Hort. Society. — At a recent meeting 

 of this Society, Mr. Cabot, fi-om the commit- 

 tee for estabfishing jiremiums for 1851, report- 

 ed a list amounting to $2,200, which was adopt- 

 ed and ordered printed. From this list, we 

 select the following " Prospective Prizes," for 

 objects to be originated subsequent to 1846, 

 and wliicli, after a trial of five years, shall be 

 deemed equal or superior in quality and otlier 

 characteristics, to any now extant. 



For the best seedling 



Pear, the Society's large Gold Medal S60 



Apple, do do do 60 



Hardy Grape, do do 60 



Plum, (he Appleton Gold Medal 40 



Cherry, the Lowell Gold Medal 40 



Tree Pceonia. the Appleton G. M 40 



Herbaceous Pajouia, the Lowell G. M 40 



Potato, tlie Society's large Gold Medal 60 



^fter a trial of three years. 



For the best seedling 



Strawlieny, the Lyman Plate S50 



Raspberry, the Bradlee Medal 40 



Hardy Rose, large Gold Medal 60 



Camellia Japonica, do 60 



Azalea Indica, Lowell Gold Medal 40 



Blackberry 40 



Gooseberry 30 



Currant, red or white 30 



Albany and Rensselaer Hort. Society. — 

 The society met at tlie State Agricultural 

 Rooms, Feb. 6, V. P. Douw, President, in the 

 chair. 



The Treasurer made his annual report, which 

 was referred to a committee consisting of Dr. 

 Herman Wendell and Mr. James, who report- 

 ed the account correct. 



Messrs. Tucker, Prentice, Menand, Dorr and 

 Kirtland, were appointed a committee to nomi- 

 nate officers, who reported the names of the 

 following gentlemen, who were elected: 



Piesideiit — VolkertP. Docw, Wolvenhook. 



Vice-Presidents — Herman Wendell, M. D., 

 Albany ; D. Thomas Vail, Troy ; E. P. Prentice, 

 Mt. Hope; William Newcomb, Pittstown. 



Secretary — B. P. Johnson, Albany. 



Treasurer — Luther Tucker, Albany. 



Managers — B. B. Kirtland, Greenbush; .J. 

 M. Lovett, Albany; L. Menand, AYatervliet; 

 S. Moro-an, Guilderland; J. S. Goold, Albany; 

 J. McD^McIntyre, Albany; W. A. McCulloch, 

 Greenbush; James Wilson, Albany; E. Dorr, 

 Albany. 



Committees for 1850. 



Fruits. — Dr. Herman AYendell, Albany 

 chairman. V. P. Douw, Greenbush; E 

 Albany; B. B. Kirtland, Greenbush; 

 Vail, troy. 



