DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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The Fruit Committees. — The President of 

 the Congress of Fruit-growers has, at the request 

 of horticulturists in Iowa, appointed the following 

 gentlemen a committee for that state, viz: Jas. 

 Grant, of Davenport, (chairman,) James Weed, 

 Bloomington, H. Gates, Burlington, Homer J. 

 FiNLEY and John Evans, of Davenport. 



Col, Little, chairman of the Maine state com- 

 mittee, also informs us tliat he lias lilled up the 

 vacancies in his committee, which is now com- 

 posed as follows: Henry Little, Bangor, (chair- 

 man, )Stephen L. Goodale, Saco, Wm. A. Drew, 

 Augusta, Walter Goodale, South Orrington, 

 Ezekiel Holmes, Winthrop. 



We are glad to perceive, by our correspondence, 

 that the chairmen of many of the dilierent commit- 

 tees are zealously engaged, this winter, collecting 

 facts on the subject of orchards; and we refer 

 those of them to whom we have not otherwise re- 

 plied, to the suggestions in the printed Circular. 



Horticultural Library. — We give the fol- 

 lowing list of the most desirable books for a small 

 horticultural library, at the request of the secre- 

 taries of several newly organized horticultural 

 societies, in varioas parts of the country: 



Loudon's Encyclopedia of Gardening, (This 

 work is a very complete digest of the whole sub- 

 ject, useful and ornamental,) 5th edition. 1475 

 pages. $10. 



Loudon's Suburban Horticulturist. (Loudon's 

 latest work on the practical culture of the kitchen, 

 fruit, and forcing garden,) 1 vol., 8vo. 730 

 pages. $6. 



Loudon's Encyclopedia of Plants. (A most 

 valuable botanical dictionary, with figures of 

 10,000 species;) new edition, with supplement. 

 1 volume. 1329 pages. $18. 



Loudon's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs. 

 1 volume. 1232 pages. $13. 



Lindley's Theory of Horticulture. (The best 

 work on the subject.) $1.50. 



Lindley's Introduction to Botany. (New edi- 

 tion ; the most complete English work on struc- 

 tural botany.) 2 volumes. $6. 



Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom. $7. 



Lindley's (George) Guide to the Orchard. 1 

 vol., 12mo. New- York edition. $1. (This is 

 the best English work on fruits.) 



Ripton's Landscape Gardening. (Loudon's edi- 

 tion.) $8. 



Bridgeraan's Gardener's Assistant. $2. 



Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener. 50 cents. 



Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden. 

 (Mrs. Loudon's.) New- York edition. $1.25. 



Thomas' Fruit Culturist. 50 cents. 



Buist's American Flower Garden Directory. $1. 



The London Horticultural Society's Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Fruits. 3d edition. $1.50. 



Coxe on Fruit Trees. 



Liebig's Agricultural Chemistry. 4th edition. 

 $1.25. 



Johnson's Dictionary of Gardening. (Edited by 

 Landreth.) $1.50. 



Mcintosh's Green-House. $3. 



Gray's Botanical Text Book. 2d ed. $1.75. 



Gray's Botany of the Northern States. $1.75. 



Allen on the Culture of the Grape. 75 cents. 



The Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals. 

 (Mrs. Loudon's.) 48 richly coloured plates. $11. 



The Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials. 

 (Mrs. Loudon's.) 45 coloured plates. $23. 



Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation. $1.25. 



Rivers' Rose Amateurs' Guide. $1. 



Parsons on the Rose. $1.50. 



Boussingault's Rural Economy. $1.50. 



Paxton's Dictionary of Plants. 



In addition to the above wc will add, that the 

 most valuable foreign gardening periodicals, are 

 the Gardener's Chronicle, (London,) weekly; cost 

 per annum, including postage, $9.50: and Revue 

 Horticole, (Paris,) semi-monthly, (small;) $3. 

 Paxton's Magazine of Botany; tlie best English 

 work on new plants, with richly coloured plates, 

 monthly; at $10: and Van Houtte's Flore des 

 Serre et Jardins ; a work of the same kind, equally 

 beautiful, at $8. 



The Bon Jardinier, is the most valuable practi- 

 cal French work on general horticulture ; a new 

 edition of which is published every year, at Paris, 

 at $1.75. 



Duhamel's Traite des Arbres Fruiters. An 

 old work, in two quarto volumes, useful for refer- 

 ence, may be had for $7. 



Noisette's Jardin Fruitier. A standard mo- 

 dern French work, but quite imperfect, — many 

 coloured plates of fruit. $30. 



Ronalds on the Apple. An English work, 

 (1831,) with exquisite plates. $26. 



The Pomological Magazine; (i. e., Lindley's 

 British Fruits, as the new edition is termed.) 3 

 volumes, 8vo. Coloured plates. $30. 



All, or nearly all, of the above works may be 

 procured of Mr. Wiley, bookseller, publisher and 

 importer, 161 Broadway, New- York. And any 

 of the foreign books named, which may not be at 

 hand, will be imported by him to order, within 

 three or four weeks. 



Covering Tender Roses. — A correspondent in 

 Cayuga county asks for particular directions for 

 protecting tender everblooming roses in winter. 



For roses that are quite tender, put a coat of 

 dry peat earth, charcoal dust, or tan, five or six 

 inches deep, over the roots and around the stems 

 of the plants. Upon this lay branches of ever- 

 greens; or, if these are not at hand, straw or lit- 

 ter. Tea roses may be kept out of doors in this 

 way with us, but probably not in Cayuga county. 

 But there this mode will apply to Bourbon, Chi- 

 na, and Noisette roses. 



If these everblooming roses are planted in cir- 

 cular beds, of three to six feet across, they not 

 only produce an excellent effect, but are more easi- 

 ly covered. After putting on the light top dress- 



