Will you be kind enough to infoTm me where I can purchase a general assortment of fruit trees true to name 

 especially Peach and Plum, and at the most reasonable prices, one year from bud ? (1) 



Also a list of twenty-four of each of the best, most hardy, and productive kinds, for market Also twenty-four of 

 Ihe 1 est Wads of A] plea for market. (2) J. E. W.—Merideit, Ct. 



(1) We must refer you to our advertising pages for the names of nurserymen, any of tliem 

 ■will send you priced catalogues if you ask for them. Our rule is not to recommend any estab- 

 lishment. We can only advise you to deal with those who have a reputation for honesty and 

 accuracy. 



(•2) Profitable market fruits tor your locality : — Peaches — ^Early York Serrate, Crawford's Eai'h', 

 Cooledge's Favorite, Crawford's Late, and Old Mixon Free. Plums — Imperial Gage, Prince's 

 Yellow Gage, Smith's Orleans, Lombard, and Reine Claude de Bavay. Apples — Early Harvest, 

 Sweet Bough, Fall Pippin, Ilubbardson Nonesuch, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, and Rox- 

 bury Russet. In twenty-four you can not go far wrong in taking equal numbers of each sort 

 above named. 



Dwarf Apples. — Are dwarf Apple trees on Paradise stocks liealthy and hardy as the same kinds grafted on com- 

 mon seedlings? I refer to blight, winter killing, bursting at the collar, &c. (1) 



The old fashioned Quince is very liable to blight here. It is difficult to get any fruit. Are there any new hardier 

 varielies? (2) 



The Apple, unless forced in growth, is pretty hardy and productive. D. PimrNGTON. — Pike, Muscatine Co., loioa. 



(1) We have never observed anything to the contrary. 



(2) We think not; the varieties used as stocks, generally grow more rapidly and later in the 

 season, and are therefore not so well fitted to resist extreme cold. As to the blight, we think 

 that one is as likely to suffer by it as the other. 



I HAVE a few squares of Dwarf Pears on Quince roots in my garden, planted eight feet apart each way; and as 

 they will in a few years occupy Ihe entire ground, to Ihe exclusion of root crops, I desire to know whether I should 

 continue to have the earth deeply spaded or forked up between the trees? or should it be dug so shallow as not to 

 Interfere witli the roots of the trees ? and how near to the trunk of the tree should it be done? A. .1. Nobls. — Mont- 



ffomery, Alabama. 



Spade deeply where there are no roots. Fork over the roots lightly. The operator will be 

 able to know when he has reached the roots — they generally come to within two or three inches 



of the surface. 



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Is the Paris or Fontmiaij Quince the same as the TJpriQlxt f If not, does the Upright make good stocks for Pears ? 

 If it is the same, the last question is of course answered in the last number of the UorUcultui'iM. Mr. Le Roy, in 

 his catalogue, says of the Angers Quince, "very productive; the best for preserves." Does it sustain that character 

 here? O.— Oswego Co., N. Y. 



The Paris or Fontenay and Upright are quite distinct; the latter is of too slender growth and 

 dwarf habit to make a good stock for the Pear. We have not fruited the Angers sufficiently 

 to say whether it sustains the character given by Mr. Le Roy. 



Will any of your subscribers inform me by letter, or through the ITortieiilturist, of the success of conservatories 

 on grcen-houscs attached to their dwellings? Mr. Downino recommended such structures, but I have a vague 

 impression that when tried they have not given satisfaction. May not the dampness and air of the glass-house, cov- 

 ering a door and lower windows, so pervade the dwelling as to make it disagreeable and unhealthy ? E. G. Kelley. 

 — Evergreens, Kev:hury2>ort, Mass. 



horticultural Sotiitfts, ^t. 



The Adriax Horticultural Society. — The fifth annual meeting of this Society was held last 

 evening, and was in every respect a spirited and satisfactory one. 



Mr. Lathrop, the Treasurer, made a report on the finances of tlie Society, showing it to be out 

 debt and to have a respectable surplus on hand, notwithstanding its paj-mcnts for seeds 

 additions to its library the past year. 



