DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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ff&pes, many of which are of a new kind; and to 

 CtJs Johnson, B. Emerson, and James Arnold, 

 ■each the Society's medal of $5, for their well- 

 grown specimens. 



The Committee on Pears have awarded prices 

 as follows— To S. Walker, for the best 12 varie- 

 ties, 12 specimens each, the first premium; to 

 Hovey & Co. the second premium; to J. Lowell 

 the tiiird premium; and they recommended a gra- 

 tuity of a <^o}d medal, or a piece of plate of the 

 value of $25, to Marshall P. Wilder, President of 

 the Society, and a gratuity of the like value to 

 Robert Maning, of Salem, for their extensive col- 

 lection and new varieties; also premiums to Mrs. 

 James Adams, for a dish of Seckels, and to Samu- 

 el Pond, for a dish of Dix pears. 



The Committee on apples awarded for the best 

 12 varieties of 12 specimens each, the Society's 

 plate, valued at $25, to J. L. I.. F. Warren; the 

 second to Messrs. Hyde, flO; the third to El- 

 bridge Tufts, $5. Also, a gratuity to B. V. 

 French of the Society's plate or medal, valued at 

 $25, for the largest collection; to George Pierce 

 $6 for the best basket of Porter apples, and to J. 

 Stickney the second best, being the Hubbardston 

 Nonsuch, $4. The Committee recommend gratu- 

 ities or medals, worth $5 each, for beautiful speci- 

 mens, to James Eustis, A. D, Weld, Anson Dex- 

 ter, Hovey & Co., A. D. Williams & Son, R. 

 Manning, and A. Hall. 



Gen. Hand Pi.0M.~-We ha.ve received speci- 

 mens, in good order, of this American plum, so 

 much talked of, and so little known to pomologists, 

 from Eli Parry, of Lancaster, Pa- 

 It is a magnilicent fruit, averaging, we should 

 judge, larger than the Washington, and quite dis- 

 tinct from all other sorts. We shall publish an ac- 

 curate description of it, and will, therefore, only re- 

 mark now that it is a roundish oval fruit, measur- 

 ing from 6 to 7 inches round, of a deep golden yel- 

 low colour, with a much longer stalk than the 

 Washington. The flavor is, we think, not equal to 

 that of the latter fruit ; but as we learn that it is a 

 much greater bearer, its size and beauty will, no 

 doubt, make it a popular variety. 



Pear Ssedlings.— -Many individuals, after ma- 

 king two or three unsuccessful attempts to raise 

 pear seedlings in this country, have given up the 

 thing as utterly hopeless, at the same time venting 

 the severest maledictions against our soil and cli- 

 mate, than which there is not a more propitious one 

 on the face of the globe. But it is possible to raise 

 pear seediing-s, and that much superior to foreign 

 stocks. I have been in the habit, for the last 

 thirty years, of growing large quantities of differ- 

 ent kinds of seedlings, in a great variety of soils, 

 •with more or less success, and have, therefore, had 

 opportunity of observirig the soil in which they thrive 

 best. 



In my first attempt, I merely gave a heavy top- 

 dressing of well rotted manure. This I found would 

 answer very well for all but pears j they would 



grow tigorously for about two months and then 

 stop, frequently losing their foliage ; of course, it 

 v/as several years before they were sufficiently 

 large to transplant in the nursery rows for budding. 

 Having remarked that the seedlings in the deep 

 humus soil of my city garden grew very luxuriant- 

 ly, I concluded that m.y want of success in the 

 country was entirely attributable to the shallow- 

 ness of the top soil. I therefore adopted another 

 method, which I have since pursued with great 

 success. I first make a deep trench with the 

 plough, and finish to the required depth with the 

 s[)a.^e-~-two /eet — not less, if you would have seed- 

 lings that will average twenty inches the first year. 

 Now, for the compost used to fill up the trench, 

 which I consider the great desideratum, after all : 

 to half a peck iron filings, or cinders from the 

 blacksmith shop, add half a peck of leached lime, 

 half a peck leached hard wood ashes, and a peck 

 each of muck from the swamp, and well rotted 

 barnyard manure. These should be pulverized and 

 well incorporated with one bushel of soil, in which 

 the seedlings are to be grown. If these directions 

 are strictly lollowed, you will have such plants as 

 will make our foreign neighbors look a little aston- 

 ished. R. Schenectady, N. Y., September, 1848, 



Tested Fruits. — I have fruited the Early Til- 

 lottson Peach here, this season, and think it will 

 sustain a high character. 



We here consider the Rostiezer the best summer 

 pear. Truly your friend, Geo. Jaques. WorceS' 

 ter, Mass., September, 8, 1848. 



iNFLtJENCE OF THE StoCK tTPON THE GrAFT. — • 



If you think the following remarks worthy of a 

 place in your journal, they are at your service : 



Six years ago 1 planted peach stones of late 

 kinds, and budded them the same season with vari- 

 ous kinds. This season I noticed that the early 

 kinds were a week later in ripening, than the same 

 fruit on the trees from which the buds were taken, 

 the soil and situation being much the same. This 

 led me to make further observations. I sold a par- 

 cel of trees to a farmer three years ago, which I 

 had budded upon stocks raised from stones, of late 

 and early peaches. In a row of Oldmixon Clings, 

 I noticed one tree M^hich seemed to have greener 

 fruit than the rest, and which, in fact, ripened about 

 eight days after the others ; my having taken the 

 last peach offof the late tree but a few days since. 

 This I would have attributed to some mistake in 

 the trees, and thought the tree was one of a similar 

 kind, but later, had I not superintended the planting 

 myself. 



A neighbor of mine has buds on two trees of the 

 Red Magnum Bonum Plum, which bore this year ; 

 he called me in one da}', wishing to hear ray opi- 

 nion of the difference in the time of ripening, which 

 would have, indeed, puzzled me, had I not been 

 wide awake on that subject ; but to leave no doubt 

 that they were the same kind, he declared to me 

 that he took the buds off the same twig, and bud- 

 ded them at the same time, — thus putting it out of 

 the question to have been of diflferent varieties. On 

 examination, I found the one tree [stock] was the 

 Mirabolan, [Cherry Plum,] which is one of the ear- 



