AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 31t 



Many members of this Society, wlio have tasted them, all agree to their 

 good quality. They produce 20 or 30 for 1. 



PEACH TREES, 



They find to do best when set out in November. The roots, during winter, 

 are being made ready in their small ones and spongioles for spring. Straw 

 spread around the tree in burning hot weather, helps them much. 



THE POMOLOGICAL CONGRESS OF LYONS, 1856, 1857, & 1858, 

 Consisted of 200 members, of whom 113 are practical aien, and the rest 

 proprietors and officers of societies for agriculture and horticulture. 



The Prefect of the Seine, at their request, gave the Congress the place 

 No. 84 in Crenelle, St. Germain street, for their meetings hereafter. 



The Fragaria /ucida, a transparent strawberry from California, has not 

 flourished in France. The Secretary General announced the receipt of many 

 works from the Smithsonian Institute. The Congress met at 2^ and ad- 

 journed at 3 o'clock P. M. 



[From the Transactions of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.] 



" Verhandlungen van Het Bataviaasch Genootschap Tan Kunsten en 

 Wetenschappen, Batavia, 1857." Just received from Java, through Hon. 

 Mr. Burlage, Consul General of the Netherlands. 



ICTHYOLOGY OF JAPAN— By Dr. P. Bleeker. 



" After I had, in two articles, brought together all the knowledge we have 

 of the fishes of Japan worth remark, we obtained a greater collection from 

 the city of Nagasaki, for which our thanks are due to Mr. A. I. I. Wolif, 

 who made this costly collection of 120 species, chiefly from the Bay of Na- 

 gasaki." 



We recommend this work to all who love knowledge, and also as it leads 

 to profit in commerce. The Society sends us also some periodicals which 

 they have published, relating to the language, governments, histor3', and 

 natural history, of the surrounding region, the great Archipelago, under 

 the title of " Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal, Land en Volkenkunde." 

 Periodical relative to the language and people of India." 



Prof. Mapes. — I always plant peach trees carefully, with points down. 

 In taking the tree from the nursery, I cut of all the limbs, and set it an 

 inch higher in its new place than it stood before. I shorten in all the limbs 

 next year two-thirds the length by cutting off" always at a leaf bud, and not a 

 fruit bud ; and I let the trees branch from near the ground. Natural seed- 

 lings are longer lived than budded trees. It is positively necessary to dis- 

 turb the ground as early as possible in the spring. All peach limbs should 

 be shortened in so as not to be pendant. No organic matter will answer 

 for peach trees. Barn-yard manures will kill them. Nothing but inor- 

 ganic manures will answer. Trees should be trimmed early in the spring, 

 as soon as the weather is warm enough to make the limbs supple. 



The Peach Worm is frequently destroyed, or rather prevented, by using 



