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this ir.agtiificont species have yet been produced in Europe, and, in fact, 

 the original variety is there d m aratively unknown, it being fou: d in but 

 three or four collections in all Europe. We may also refjr to the large 

 and beauti ul seedling varieties which have been obtained from ths Prince 

 Albert, and the Crimson Cone, and which are unequalled by any but the 

 preceding. 



During the last autumn and winter, we have been gratified at receiving 

 orders from Europe for our new and superior American varieties, and we 

 predict that, i". a few years, every variety hitherto cultivated in England 

 will be cast aside there as utterly worthless in the comparison. — Yours very 

 respeclfuUy, Win i? Prince, Linnaan Botitmc Garden and Nurseries, 

 Flushing, L. I., May, 1848. 



Severity of the Winter at Albany. — We have had a very severe winter 

 for young trees and shrubbery of all kmds, as well as lor peach, plum, and 

 cherries ; our prospects for fruit of these kinds is meagre indeed ; the peach 

 and plum cmp will amount to little or nothing — the blossoms having been 

 killed by the extreme vicissitudes of the winter — and the cherries promise 

 but very little better. I have tree after tree without a blossom upon them, 

 while the pear and apple trees are filled with bloom. You are aware that 

 I protected my young pear trees last fall with straw, and I am much pleased 

 that I did so, for I have not lost or had materially injured a single tree 

 out of over a hundred so protected. A few trees removed early in the au- 

 tumn, before the leaves had fallen, and from which the leaves were cut with 

 a knife, have been killed down to near the ground, but not destroyed. I 

 wish to recommend this plan of protecting young and rare varieties of the 

 pear to those who wish to use the wood for scions, for you are aware that 

 the bark of young trees is very often so much injured by the winter's sun 

 as to render the wood unfit for such purpose. — Yours very truly, Herman 

 Wendell, Academy Park, Albany, N. Y., May, 1848. 



Art. III. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, April 29lh, 1818. — Exhibited. — Fruit: From J. F. Allen, fine 

 Black Hamburgh grapes. 



May 6th. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. 



Voted, that the Recording Secretary be requested to distribute through 

 the parcel post the tickets of the members and invited guests. 



Mr. Newhall submitted a motion, that " appropriations for the objects of 

 this Society be made at the stated meetings in January, April, July, and 

 October, and at no other meeting :" — agreeably to the wish ofthe mover, it 

 was laid upon the table, for action at the stated meeting in July. 



George W. Warren, Wm. S. Nelson, and J. J. Clarke, were admitted 

 members. 



Adjourned four weeks, to 1st Saturday in June. 



