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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



MoNTREAT, HoRTictTLTtTB'^L SociEJTY. — We ob- 

 serve, with pleasure, by the iiccounts of the exhi- 

 bitions of this society, that a very lively interest in 

 prardeniniT is manifested in and about Montreal. 

 The exhibition of June 2S. was a very successful 

 one. Among novelties were a line show of ranun- 

 culus, from the jrarden of G. Desbarats, Esq. 

 The first prize for roses, (ifty varieties, was 

 awarded to Mr. Tur-Ver. The finest strawberries 

 shown were Ross Phoenix, fiom the ffarden of Jos. 

 Savage, Esq. The show of forced fruits, melons, 

 grapes, nectarines, &c., was exceedingly good. 



New-Havem Hort. Society. ^The secretary of 

 this society desires us to say, that delegates from 

 horticultural or agricultural societies tliroughout 

 the country, (properly certified by their respective 

 societies,) will be waited upon and cordially re- 

 ceived by a committee appointed for that purpose, 

 at their next annual fair, Sept. 26th, 27th and 2.Sth, 

 to be held at the State House, New-Haven. 



HoRTICULTCriAL EXHIBITIONS THI-> MONTH.^ 



New- York State, at Hulfalo, on the 5th, 6th and 

 7th ; Albany and Rensselaer, at Albany, on 'the 

 14th and 13th ; Massachusetts, at Boston, on the 

 19th, 2Jth and 21st; Pennsylvania, at Philadel- 

 phia, on the 20th, 21st and 22d ; and New Jersey, 

 at Burlington, on the same days. [Gentlemen can 

 visit both these exhibitions on the same day, the two 

 places being at only one hours distance, by steam- 

 boat or railway.] New Haven county, at New 

 Haven, on the 26th, 27th and 28th. 



Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — At a meeting of the executive committee 

 of the above society, August 22, it was resolved 

 that the days of annual exhioition be Thursday and 

 Friday the 14th and 15th of September. 



The following getlemen were selected to repre- 

 sent the society at the Pomological Convention to 

 be held in New- York in October, viz :— Joel Rath- 

 bone, V. P. Douw, B. Kirtland, Herman Wendell, 

 Luther Tucker, J. M. Ward and James Wilson. 



The following to represent the society at the an- 

 nual exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, viz :— A. J. Parker, E. P. Prentice, J. 

 McD. Mclntyre, John B. Gale, Wra. Newcomb 

 and George Gould ; and the following to represent 

 the society at Pennsylvania and New Jersey Hor- 

 ticultural Society annual exhibitions, viz : — V. P. 

 Douw, D. T. Vail, Herman Wendell, Amos Briggs, 

 J. M. Ward and E. Emmons. 



Tara Willey Strawberry. — In the July num- 

 ber of your journal it is remarked that this variety 

 should properly be called " Wiley." This is a 

 mistake. It is an old variety, originally brought 

 here from New-York, the name lost, and again re- 

 turned to you with the name of a lady of this place, 

 instrumental in its dissemination. (See Albany 

 Cultivator, vol. 3d, new series, p. 285.) The la- 

 dy's name is most distinctly Willey. It is singu- 

 lar, as this variety has been fruited by many po- 

 mologists at the east, that it has not been identified 

 with some previously known variety. My belief is, 

 that it is the Hudson of Longworth, and Mr. 

 Ernst once told me that he could see no difference 



between them. I was much surprised at the Cifl' 

 cinnati strawberry committee's remarks upon it. 

 With respect, F. R. Elliott. Cleveland, 0. Aug., 

 1848. 



[We are glad to know, correctly, the origin and 

 orthography of the name " Willey." We have 

 fruited this strawberry, received both from Cleve- 

 land and Cincinnati for two years past, and consid- 

 er it quite distinct from any variety v/ell known 

 here. Possibly it may be a new seedling, though 

 taken from New- York to Cleveland. It is entirely 

 distinct from the Hudson of Cincinnati— the berry 

 less firm in texture, and less high flavored. 



While on this subject we may remark, that we 

 have fruited this season the Hudson of Cincinnati, 

 as sent to us by Mr. Ernst, of the latter place. 

 Mr. LoNGW)RTH imagined, when our work on 

 fruits was first published, that we were ignorant of 

 the true Hudson strabwerry, because we described 

 it, (as indeed all authors before us had done,) as 

 having a neck. Judge of our surprise, therefore, 

 when Mr. Ernst's plants came into bearing in our 

 soil, to find that with one half of the berries it was 

 " neck or nothing" — they were the genuine old 

 Hudson strawberry, familiar to us for 25 years. If, 

 therefore, this strawberry has no neck at Cincinna- 

 ti, we can only say that it has departed from its 

 old established character, in emigrating to the 

 west. 



Japan Lilies. — You write me that your Japan 

 lilies have stood the winter well in the open bor- 

 der. Mine also have done well out of doors, but 

 do not grow so tall as those under glass. I exhibi- 

 ted in the society's rooms las» Saturday, a seedling 

 of the red sort, seven feet high, with 19 buds and 

 fiowers, 4 years old ! The seedlings, though dif- 

 fering very little in the bloom, produce larger bulbs, 

 stronger stems, and are more prolific in flowers 

 than the original kinds. I have my camellia house 

 filled with them now, and as they are all in bloom, 

 it is quite a brilliant sight. Yours, M. P. Wilder. 

 Boston, July 27, 1848". 



The Curculio. — A neighbor of mine has suc- 

 ceeded, as he thinks, in preventing the depredations 

 of the curculio by hanging in his trees open mouthed 

 jars of ship varnish, or gas tar. His trees were 

 much affected with the insect heretofore, but this 

 year are full of fruit and free from injury. M. P. 

 W. Ibid. 



Manuring the Seckel Pear. — In your last 

 number you remark that the Seckel pear requires 

 more manure than most other varieties. I can give 

 another illustration of the truth of this. 



Three years ago I opened a trench, three feet 

 wide and sixteen inches deep, around an old and 

 rather exhausted Seckel pear tree, that had not for 

 several years previous borne any fruit worth gather- 

 ing, so small were they in size. 



This circular trench was dug at the outside of the 

 ball of the roots, that is about four feet from the 

 trunk, thus leaving a ball of eight feet around the 

 tree untouched. All the earth from this trench I 

 carted away, and replaced it with one peck of bone 

 dust, four cart loads of stable manure, and enough 

 good fresh soil to fill up the trench. 



The roots started very quickly into the fresh and 



