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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



continent, in connection with pomological science. 

 It was not, nor could it liave been expected to ac- 

 complish much beyond a complete organization. 

 This is now effected. The appointment of the 

 Standing Fruit Committee, consisting of the 

 most skilful pomologists and fruit growers in the 

 United States and Canada, is a grand movement ; 

 and if the convention had accomplished this alone, 

 it would not have assembled in vain. This com- 

 mittee, after a year of research, cannot fail on re- 

 assembling, to make such a report as will be of in- 

 finite service to the country. 



The proceedings and discussions throughout, 

 with one trifling exception, were characterized by 

 rare harmony, good feeling, and enjoyment. In- 

 deed it was not only an important deliberative 

 body, assembled to promote the ends of science, 

 but a delightful re-union of the most tasteful and 

 intelligent cultivators of the soil from all parts of 

 our country. The collection of fruits was impo- 

 sing and beautiful, and afibided at all intervals of 

 business, pleasant and profitable themes for discus- 

 sion and remark. 



Aside from the benefits to be derived from the 

 public discussions and future action of this body, 

 every member of the convention must have felt 

 himself amplv repaid for the trouble and expense 

 attending it, by the rare opportunity it afforded 

 for the private interchange of facts, opinions, and 

 specimens of fruits, as well as the forming of new 

 social and business relations. These are all in- 

 valuable acquisitions, and could not have been well 

 obtained under other circumstances. 



We should be wanting in duty, were we to neg- 

 lect here, as a delegate, to express our acknow- 

 ledgments to the American Institute for the libe- 

 rality and kindness extended to the convention, in 

 preparing a suitable Hall, in paying expenses on 

 all fruits sent to it, and in admitting all the mem- 

 bers free to their exhibition in Castle Garden; to 

 the respective committees of arrangements who 

 discharged their arduous duties in the most satis- 

 factory manner ; and to the distinguished President, 

 Marshall P. Wilder, Esq., of Mass., whose 

 rare ability, forbearance, and impartiality in the 

 chair, greatly facilitated the transaction of busi- 

 ness, and secured that harmony of which it has 

 been our pleasure to speak." Genesee Farmer 

 for Nov. 



Horticultural Traveller. — Mr. Barry, the 

 well known and intelligent editor of the Genesee 

 Farmer, has just sailed for Europe, on a horticul- 

 tural tour of a !ew months. He proposes not only 

 to examine the points in gardening most interest- 

 ing in England, France, and Germany, but to bring 

 home the most i ;t':'resting novelties, especially in 

 hardy trees and shrubs, to enrich the nurseries at 

 Rochester. 



Mr. CoLMAN, the Agricultural tourist, has re- 

 turned to this country since the issue of our last 

 number. We presume the last number of his Re- 



port will soon be forthcoming, and we have no 

 doubt the public will be favored with some other 

 work containing the rich materials which Mr. C 

 must have collected abroad, with his unusually ex- 

 cellent opportunites. 



Labels for Trees. — A correspondent recom- 

 mends zinc labels, and gives us the following re- 

 cipe lor making ink suitable for writing upon them: 



Take half a drachm of lamp-black, one drachm of 

 verdigris, one drachm of sal-ammoniac (pulverized) 

 and dissolve them in ten drachn)S of water. This 

 will form a permanent ink, wliich may be used for 

 writing upon the strips of zinc, and will last as 

 long as the labels. .... 



Curious Pomonal Freak. — There is an odd 

 example of departure from the ordinary laws of 

 nature, in an orchard of one of our neighbors, Wm. 

 Denning, Esq., of Presque Isle, Dutchess county. 

 The tree is one of a row, all of which are Rhode 

 Island Greenings. This particular tree also 

 bears a proper crop of Rhode Island Greenings, 

 except on one large branch, which for two or three 

 years past has borne Russet apples. The latter 

 apples are, in size and form, Rhode Island Green- 

 ings, but the skin is perfectly covered with russet, 

 and the flesh, though of the normal color, is drier 

 and tougher, like that of most russets. The limb 

 which has sported in this way, is larger than one's 

 arm, and, on examining it carefullj', we find no 

 evidence of its having been grafted ; and Mr. 

 Denning, who is a most skilful and sagacious or- 

 chadist, informs us that :t has not been. Since the 

 foliage, on this branch, and also the form and size 

 of the fruit are quite those of the rest of the tree, 

 it would appear that this singular russet dress has 

 been assumed by the fruit of this branch in defiance 

 of the usual habits of the variety. 



Coe's late Red Plum — We observed also in 

 the garden at Presque Isle, a tree so loaded with a 

 fine crop of Coe's late Red Plum, that the 

 branches bent almost like those of a willow. The 

 fruit was then (Oct. 18th) ripening, and was ex- 

 cellent in flavor. This is the latest good plum for 

 our latitude. It is even better a little I'arther 

 south, and to the northward of this it does not ri- 

 pen well. 



The Melon Apple. — Among the remarkably 

 fine fruits shown at the Pomological convention in 

 New- York, some specimens of this new apple, 

 described in our last volume, were jjrreatly ixdmi- 

 red. They were (rom Rochester and Macedon, N. 

 Y. Its beauty, as well as its unusual juicyness 

 and freshness of flavor, will make it much sought 

 after as a dessert fruit. 



The Fruit Committee. — We observe a spe- 

 cial blunder in the enumeration of the special fruit 

 committee, in our account of the New- York Po- 

 mological Convention, given in the last number. 



