DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



seen, beingly uniformly large. Yours respect- 

 fully, Butler Sheldon. Auburn, March, '51. 



Cincinnati IIort. Society. — At the recent 

 annual meeting an election was held, at whicli 

 the following officers were selected for the en- 

 suing year: 



A. 11. Ernst, President; Wm. Resor, M. S. 

 Wade, N. B. Shaler, Vice-Presidents j J no. 

 A. AVarder, Rec. Sec.; Geo. Graham, Cor. 

 Sec; Wm. Resor, Treasurer. 



Executive Council. — Jno. P. Foote, M. Mc- 

 AVilliams, Wm. Orange, S. S. Jackson, G. 

 Sleath, Jos. Longwortli and S. Mosher. 

 Standing Committees for the Year. 



Fruits.— M. Mc. Williams, M. S. Wade, S. 

 M. Carter, Wm. Orange, Jno. G. Anthony. 



Flowers. — N. B. Shalur, Jas. Hall, Robert 

 Neale, Chas. Pat ton, TIios. Salter. 



Vegetables. — John P. Foote, A. Worthing- 

 ton, Rob't. M. Moore, Geo. Graham, Henry 

 Ives. 



Library. — Jno. P. Foote, Jno. A. Warder 

 Jno. G. Anthony. 



Adrian, (Mich.) Hort. Society. — At a re- 

 cent meeting of the citizens of Adrian, a Hor- 

 ticultural Society was formed, and D. K. Un- 

 DERAvooD was choscu President; L. G. Berry 

 Vice-President; P. Raymond, Treasurer; F. 

 R. Stebbins Secretary. 



Rome IIort. Society. — At a meeting of 

 gentlemen interested in Horticultural opera- 

 tions, held April 19th, a Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation was formed ; and the following officers 

 were elected for the present year: President, 

 Edward Huntington; Vice President, H. C. 

 Vogell; Secretary ,C. P. Grosvenor; Treasurer, 

 J, A. Dudley; Trustees, Alva Mudge, Jay 

 Hatheway, J. Stryker, Ilervey Brayton, B. 

 Leonard. 



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Fruit Tree Seeds.— D. ji. Carley, (Dun- 

 dee, 111.) Pour some milk- warm water over the 

 apple, pear and other seeds, lately received by 

 you in a dry state; let it stand a quarter of an 

 hour, then pour hot water, (just so hot that 

 you can barely keep your hand in it,) over 

 them, and let it remain an hour. Then plant 

 them. If you can cover the drills in which 

 you plant, (after you have covered the seeds to 

 the usual depth — half an inch) — with about 

 half an inch of spent tan, or what is much bet- 

 ter, very rotten manure, or decayed leaf mould 

 from the woods, you will greatly promote their 

 vegetation and after-growth. The seeds that 

 are in pomace should be separated from it by 



washing, and it would have been much better 

 done lust fall than now. Afterwards, jtlant in 

 tlie same way. The wild plum, crab and thorns 

 which you speak of, will answer pretty well as 

 stocks ; but they do not generally do so well as 

 seedling stocks more akin to the sorts to be 

 worked on tliem. 



Books.— D. M. J., (Carlisle, Pa.) The oest 

 general treatise is Loudon's Encyclopedia of 

 Gardening. For hardy garden culture, Lou- 

 don's Suburban Horticulturist. Buist's Flow- 

 er Garden Directory will give you much useful 

 and practical information on the culture of hot- 

 house and green-house plants. (Your other 

 queries are answered by letter.) ^ Subscriber, 

 (Mount Pleasant, Iowa.) Procure Buist's 

 Flower Garden Directory, and our Fruit Trees 

 of America, which will give you the desired 

 information. 



Special Culture. — Rachel W. Morris. 

 (Wellsboro.) The curled leaves and unhealthy 

 habit of the snowballs, of which you complain, 

 are the work of an insect. It is perhaps too 

 late to effectually get rid of the trouble this sea- 

 son — but if you will manure the plants thorough- 

 ly next fall, cut out all the old wood, and prune 

 and shorten back the new shoots till the plants 

 are pretty thin and open, and then, as soon as 

 the leaves begin to unfold, shower them once a 

 week for three weeks, with tobacco water, you 

 will get rid of the pest — and once well rid of it, 

 you will probably have no further trouble. Left 

 in undisturbed possession, it lays its eggs and 

 provides a new colony of depredators every sea- 

 son. Your heliotropes, probably, do not Hower 

 In winter, because you plant them out and al- 

 low them to bloom all summer. To bloom well 

 ii) winter, they should be kept in pots all the 

 year, and shifted in fresh soil in September — 

 so as to make new growth when you wish them 

 to bloom. Jl. S., (Iowa.) Box may be readi- 

 ly propagated from seed, but we never heard 

 of any being produced in this country. Few 

 plants, however, grow so freely from slips, if 

 you will only take pains to pound the earth 

 quite hard about the base of the cuttings when 

 you plant them. 



Durable Wash for Brick Wai,ls,— W^, 

 Riley, ( Alma.O.) The best wash for brickwalls 

 is the following. Take a barrel, and slal 

 carefully, with boiling water, half a bushel 



