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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



flourishing young side shoots, on your Prairie 

 rose, which I will sui)pose trained to a pole 

 ten feet high, or against a wall. You insert 

 huds of the Bourbon and Noisette roses — or of 

 the Perpctuals; I find the former the best. 

 Next spring you head back the shoots to a point 

 an incli or so above the buds tliat have taken. 

 The vigor of the prairie stock soon forces these 

 buds of the ever-blooming roses into luxuriant 

 growth, and they will speedily be covered with 

 flowers. By selecting half a dozen of the most 

 striking colors and contrasts, and budding them 

 at ditTcrent heights on the Prairie climber, you 

 have one of the richest pillars of roses concei- 

 vable — blooming more or less all the season. In 

 pruning the pillar you do not sacrifice the Prai- 

 rie rose itself — but allow it to bear a conside- 

 rable number of its own flowers, only keeping 

 down its strongest shoots, so as to throw the ne- 

 cessary amount of nourishment into the budded 

 shoots. 



I find tlie following varieties succeed admira- 

 bly in this way. Aiince Vibert, (Noisette, pure 

 white;) Madam Desprez, (Bourbon, deep rose- 

 color, in large clusters ;) ilfa//«aison, (Bourbon, 

 delicate blush white;) Mrs. Bousanquet, (Chi- 

 na, creamy white;) Bouquet de Flore, (Bour- 

 bon, briglit crimson.) 



When the Prairie another is a large plant and 

 a strong gi-ower, it is better to top back the 

 shoots to within three or four buds above where 

 the new bud is Inserted, at the time of perform- 

 ing the operation. This throws more nourish- 

 ment into the bud. It should not, however, 

 be topped near the inserted bud, as that would 

 force the latter into immediate growth, which 

 is not desirable. Your Friend, S. Philadel- 

 phia, June 15, 1851. 



Mass. Hort. Society. — "We notice by the 

 reports of the Exhibition, that J. F. Allen, 

 Esq. of Salem, exhibited very fine hot-house 

 grapes in six varieties, as early as the 31st of 

 May. Messrs. Story and Hovey & Co., also 

 exhibited fine grapes — the Wilmot's Black 

 Hamburgh, of the latter, particularly good. 



Col. Wilder made a very fine display of 120 

 blooms of Tree Paionics — in all 18 varieties of 

 this choice flowering shrub. J. S. Cabot, Esq. 

 also exhibited nine choice varieties of the same. 

 Messrs. Hovey exhibited 30 varieties of Chi- 

 nese azaleas, and Messrs. Winship a very large 



collection of blooms of fine shrubs and herba- 

 ceous plants. 



At the show on the 7th of June, Mr. Allen 

 produced four varieties of Figs in perfect ma- 

 turity — with Hunt's Tawny Nectarine, and a 

 fine new cherry called " Ellen." Tliere was 

 also a good collection of grapes and other fruit 

 from Messrs. Bowditcii, Strong, Hovey & 

 Co., and Williams. Mr. Lovett showed 15 

 mammoth stalks of the Victoria Rlmbarb, 

 weighing 24 lbs. Some of the stalks measured 

 45 inches long. Messrs. Winship showed 12 

 stalks weighing 16 lbs. 



Mr. Downing — Sir: It is a rainy day, and 

 therefore I can now send you my observations 

 of this last winter and spring, with respect to 

 my European grape-vines, and the grafts of 

 European cuttings on the American wild stocks. 

 Generally speaking, the grape-vine cuttings and 

 rooted vines, planted very late last year, (in- 

 deed some as late as June, that escaped the 

 great drouth during last summer,) are doing 

 very well, and many of them have a fair average 

 crop and promise well for the future. 



The grafts of last year have, like the wild 

 native grape-vines, put out about three weeks 

 later than their parent European stocks; show- 

 ing decidedly the positive influence of the wild 

 native vine upon the European grafts, since 

 their circulation has been retarded. Their wood 

 is now already loaded with bunches of grapes 

 in their embryo condition. This lastFebruary 

 I have grafted about 100 more, and they are 

 already nearly all putting out. To show you 

 the great power of my wild vines, I may simply 

 state tliat by my method of grafting, I have 

 31 grafts on one wild stock, and I have another 

 that has sixty European grafts of many kinds. 



In your remarks you stated that tlie grafts 

 would not be influenced by the native wild stock 

 on which I had grafted the European cuttings.* 

 So far, my experience does not sustain your 

 views ; and I am glad to be able to say that nature 

 and experience would not support your ideas. 



I flnd that my experiment and views respect- 

 ing the power of the nurse stock in modifying 

 the habits of the nursling are neither singular 

 nor original with me — that Compte Odart, that 



* Our correspoiulenl somewhat mistakes us. We know 

 of course, that the habit of growth, etc., will be slightly 

 modified by the stock — but the latter will fail to naturalize 

 the foreign grape to our climate — the point desired. Ed. 



