188 Domestic Notices. 



To Mrs. Hannah Thomas, for a basket of assorted Apples, contain- 

 ing many new varieties, introduced by the late Col. Thomas, 

 from Canada, - - . . . Diploma. 



To N. A. Tucker, for the 6 best Cabbages, . _ - 50 



To H. B. Stacy, for the G best Pumpkins, - - - - 50 



To Rev. J. K. Converse, for the 6 best Squashes, - . - 50 



To N. Stevens, for the 6 best Water Melons, - - - 50 



To Usual Pierson, for 2d best do, do. - - - - 25 



Montreal HorlicuUural Society. — The first annual report of the directors 

 of this new society has been forwarded to us, and we are gratified in seeing 

 the association organized under such good auspices as it appears to have 

 been from the report ; according to a statement of the Treasurer, the sum 

 of £22, Canada currency, was awarded in premiums last year ; from sub- 

 scriptions and exhibition fees, was only £94. The annual exhibition in 

 September last was well attended, and there were upwards of 1500 articles 

 displayed for competition. The greenhouse plants were numerous, and the 

 splendid show of fruit deserving of notice. Appended to the report is a list 

 of premiums to be awarded in 1848, and a list of the members of the soci- 

 ety. We wish it every success. 



Severity of the Winter.— The winter just passed, though much above the 

 average temperature, has, notwithstanding, been unusually severe upon 

 many kinds of fruit trees. Incur grounds, where, for six years, we have 

 never seen a pear tree in the least injured, some have been killed quite down 

 to the graft ; others are partially injured so as to require heading in ; these 

 remarks, however, apply piincipally to trees of a year's growth ; but, among 

 plums, even trees two or three years from the graft have been somewhat in- 

 jured. But, singular as it may seem, though pear and plum trees have suf- 

 fered, evergreens have wintered unusually well ; arbor vita;, which suffered 

 last year, never looked better; and rhododendrons, which, every winter, 

 have had their fine foliage more or less blackened, appear as fresh as in the 

 fall of the year. The mild weather of December and January, alternated 

 with sudden changes to severe cold, with the thermometer at 12° below 

 zero, has undoubtedly produced the effects we have alluded to. 



Pomological Rules. — We have been highly pleased to learn, during a 

 late visit to New York and Philadelphia, that our article in our last num- 

 ber, (p. 97,) reviewing the Rules for "American" Pomology, so called, 

 adopted by the Massachusetts and other horticultural societies, has received 

 the sanction of our amateur friends, and the principal cultivators in these 

 cities. We have not only found that unusual measures were taken, by the 

 parties who proposed the rules, to have them adopted, but that, from iheir 

 utter absurdity, they are regarded as a dead letter, and will have no weight 

 whatever with intelligent pomologists. Had not the question been made one 

 of a personal nature, the rules would have been rejected by the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society. Members of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, who had no knowledge of the wire-pulling in the matter, will un- 

 doubtedly call fur a reconsideration of the vote. 



The Season in Mississippi. — We have peach blooms on seedling trees 



