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US a better method to be used in the future to prevent our people be- 

 ing defrauded and help elevate the nurseryman's standard of honesty. 



REFRIGERATION. 



There is a new process of refrigeration about to be introduced into 

 this State that has many valuable points of excelle^ice. It possesses 

 all the qualities for preserving meats, vegetables, fruits, flowers, food 

 and drinks of all kinds in great perfection, in a very simple and effect- 

 ive manner. Its intensity of cold -can be regulated from 40^* above to 

 80° below as easily as you can turn on your city water or gas, simply 

 by turning a stop-cock to regulate the amount of flow of material used 

 for freezing from the reservoir through a coil of pipes within the re- 

 frigerator, where it condenses and collects in a similar tank or receiver 

 placed at the other side, which material can be redistilled without loss 

 and sent out again on its round of duty. It is said to be much cheaper 

 than ice, and to give a much better atmosphere for preserving perish- 

 able goods from decay. This process will be invaluable to the market 

 gardners, fruit producers and dealers, on account of the possibility 

 of lengthening the season. By itewe can have apples that are now 

 late fall, in perfect condition in April and May, and those we consider 

 as winter apples the next midsummer and fall. By this process we 

 may have the choicest varieties of fruits much beyond their usual 

 season. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The twenty-first session of the AmericanPomological Society was held 

 in Boston, Mass , commencing Wednesday, September 19th, and contin- 

 uing three days. Our Society was not represented by a delegate as wg 

 were needed at home to assist at our State Fair then in session. This has 

 been a very unfruitful year in nearly every section of our State, and 

 with the exception of grapes all the show fruits were unproductive, 

 and it would have been impossible to make a creditable exhibition. 

 The society made a wise choice in selecting as president Mr. P. J. 

 Berkmans, a man of liberal views and with experience in horticulture. 

 It may justly be said that the society honored itself, pomology, and 

 the man, when they elected him to succeed the lamented Marshall 

 Pinkey Wilder, who served that organization so long and faithfully, 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



I wish to call your attention to that friendless bird the English 



