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glustotrs to CorrtsponlJtnls. 



In the October number of the Horticulturist for 1852, page 459, chloride of calcium was eaiJ to 

 be used by French horticulturists to absorb the moisture of fruit rooms ; and in a note upon the 

 same page, chloride of calcium was said to be obtained by heating common chloride of lime. 

 Hie October number for 1853, page 450, gives the same remedy for superabundant moisture in 

 fruit rooms. Now, chloride of lime, as it absorbs moisture, evolves chlorine gas in such quantity 

 as to impart its own flavor to every thing eatable exposed to its atmosphere. Even after satu- 

 ration with moisture, and being dried by as much heat as hickory wood and a tin yilate kitchen 

 stove can supply, it filled the fruit room with chlorine gas as completely as before. If there be 

 a chloride of calcium (or of any thing else), which will absorb moisture without giving out 

 chlorine gas, by informing where it can be had, and at wliat price, you will very much oblige at 

 least one Subscbibek. 



r, S. — If no compound of chlorine will answer the j)urpose, is there no other remedy for damp- 

 ness, without changing the temperature ? 



We have not used the chloride of calcium, and therefore can not say whether it aflfects 

 the flavor of fruit or not. It can bo procured at the druggists at about one shilling per 

 pound, or perhaps less. We have used fresh unslaked lime, which absorbs moisture, and 

 does not, that we are aware of, affect the flavor of fruits. 



IIow is the best way of vegetating Sugar Maple, Mountain Ash, American Larch, and Straw- 

 berry Tree {Euonxfmns Americanusi) seeds? W. — Galeshurg. 



The Maple and Larch seeds, gathered this season, may be sown next spring, as they grow 

 the first season. The Euonymus and Mountain Ash should be mixed with earth, and be 

 allowed to remain so until next spring. 



Will you, through the Horticulturist, give your opinion on the propriety of setting out an 

 orchard of winter apples on the Doucain stock ? My idea is to avoid the high winds of this 

 western country, that shake the trees before the apples are ripe. E. Dayton. — Huntly Grove, III. 



You can have an orchard of low-headed trees on the Doucain or common stock — would 



prefer tlie latter for orchard. 



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Will the embanking or the ridging process for the nursery rows, for winter, be advisable in a 

 nursery of stocks budded close to the ground — Peach, Cherry, and Apple stocks — the rows crossing 

 sections of each ? Would the earth over the bud serve to protect or to smother it ? The soil is 

 not particularly inclined to heave. M. 



We would not earth up so high as to cover tlie buds ; we have seen much injury done 



by it. 



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noRTicrLTrHAL Display at Saratoga. — The arrangements made for the display of 

 horticultural products at Saratoga w^ere decidedly the worst Ave have ever seen made at 

 any State Fair in this State, since the first. All preparations seem to have been postponed 

 the last moment. Then, by some accident, the tent failed to arrive ; the first day 

 rainy, and those exhibitors who had arrived with their articles from a distance were 



