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to make your magazine, not merely a record of specific processes, and* 

 a register of plants and fruits, but also a chronicle of the yearly progress 

 and condition of the horticultural art. I should be glad if I could, in 

 any degree, thus repay the pleasure which others have given me through 

 your numbei'S, by reciprocal efforts. 



f Indiana Horticultural Society. 



Horticultural Society's Fair. This is held annually on the 4th and 

 5th of October. Experience has shown that it should be earlier, for, 

 although a better assortment of late fruits, in which, hitherto, we have 

 chiefly excelled, is secured, it is at the expense of small fruits and 

 flowers. The floral exhibition was meager— the frost already having 

 visited and despoiled our gardens. The chief attraction, as in an agri- 

 cultural community it must long continue to be, was the exhibition of 

 fruit. My recollection of New England fruits, after an absence of more 

 than ten years is not distinct, but my impression is, that so fine a col- 

 lection of fruits could scarcely be shown here. The luxuriance of the 

 peach, the plum, the pear and apple, is such, in this region, as to afford 

 the most perfect possible specimens. The vigor of fruit trees, in such 

 a soil and under a heaven so congenial, produces fruits which are very 

 large without being coarse-fleshed, the flavor concentrated and the color 

 very high. ' 



It is the constant remarks of emigrants from the east, that our apples 

 surpass those to which they have lieen accustomed. Many fruits which 

 I remember in Connecticiit, as light colored, appear with us almost 

 refulgent. All summer and early fall apples are gone before our exhi- 

 bition; but between seventy and a hundred varieties were exhibited. 

 We never expect to see finer. Our most popular winter apples are: Yel- 

 low Bellflower, White Bellflower (called "Detroit" by the gentlemen of the 

 Cincinnati Horticultural Society, but for reasons which are not satisfac- 

 tory to our mind. What has become of the White Bellflower of Cox, if 

 this is not it?); Newton Spitzenberg, exceedingly fine with us; Canfield, 

 Jennetin or Neverfail, escaping spring frosts by late blossoming, very 

 hardy, a great bearer every year; the fruit comes into eating in February, 

 is tender, juicy, mild and sprightly, and preferred with us to the Green 

 Newton Pippin, Iceeping full as well, bearing better, the pulp much more 

 manageable in the mouth, and the apple has the peculiar property of bear- 

 ing frosts, and even freezing without material injui*y; Green Newton 

 Pippin, Michael Henry Pippin (very fine), Pryor's Red, in flavor re- 

 sembling Seek-no-further; Golden Russet, the prince of small apples, and 

 resembling a fine Butter pear more nearly than any apple in our orchards, 

 an enormous bearer, some limbs exhibited were clustered with fruit. 



