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prices in our quotations. Cranberries are scarce and high. Foreign Grapes 

 are all out of the market. Lemons are plenty and sell at low prices. Chest- 

 nuts have advanced a shade. Walnuts are more abundant. M. T. 



Boston, Feb. 20th, 1835. 



Art. V. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, January Slst.— Exhibited.— From John Heard, Esq., specimens 

 of an Apple supposed to be a native variety; the scions were taken from a 

 tree growing in Ipswich, which produced fruit more than sixty years since. 

 Mr. Heard "has named it the Ipsvvicli apple. Size large, skin fine red and 

 yellow, striped with a still darker red. Flesh very tender, juicy and rich ; — 

 an excellent fruit. Cork Russet ajiples from Mr. Micah H. Ruggles, of Fall 

 River; the same variety was exhibited the 17th, and mentioned in our report 

 (p. 78.) Mr. Ruggles s'tated that they had been touched by frost, and could 

 not be considered as fair specimens. 



February lith.— Exhibited.— A bouquet of flowers from Messrs. Winship— 

 consisting of Geraniimis, Roses, Schizanthus, Hoitzia, Alunsoa incisifolia. 

 Calendula hybrida, Erica, Diosma, &c. &c. 



Art. VI. Meteorological JVotices. 

 FOR JANUARY. 



Thermometer.— Mean temperature 22° 11. Highest 51°— Lowest 14° 

 below Zero. 



Winds.— N. seven days— E. two— S. E. one— S. three— S. W. six— W. 

 five — N. W. seven. 



Character of the Weather. Fine sixteen days— Fair six days— Cloudy 

 nine days. 



MONTHLY CALENDAR 



OF 



HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE, 



FOR MARCH. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape vines in green-houses and graperies will begin early in the month, 

 to swell their buds ; plenty of air should be given to ])rcvent their being 

 Ibrced out prematurely, as it would tend to weaken the fruit bearing shoots. 



