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Blight in Pear Trees. — [We regret to learn that some of our cultivators 

 around Salem have been troubled with the blight upon their pear trees. Not 

 to a great extent, but both Mr. Ives and Mr. Cabot have lost some quite 

 large and valuable trees ; in most instances, they were healthy and vigorous 

 until a day or two before the attack. Last winter was unusually open and 

 changeable, the temperature sometimes high and again many degrees below 

 zero ; and we attributed the cause to a continued action of the sap in large 

 trees, below the reach of the frost, while the branches are exposed to a 

 very low temperature. Mr. Beecher and other western writers, have 

 called \\, frozen sapblight, and Mr. Downing has adopted their opinion. It 

 is, we doubt not, caused by severe cold weather, but whether iu the way 

 these writers speak of, remains to be discovered. Now that it has appeared 

 among us, we trust its cause will be fully ascertained. — Ed.] 



The Fruit Crop in Ohio. — The crop of grapes here this year is large, 

 and will, it is believed, produce more wine than has been produced in any 

 former year. Peaches are plenty and of excellent quality, especially the 

 late sorts in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, but the country to the north of 

 this is without any this year. Apples are, as usual, fine ; they are, in fact, 

 the standard fruit of Ohio, and are nowhere produced in greater perfection. 

 Plums and nectarines never bear unless in those cases where care is taken 

 to keep off the curculio. Pears are scarce here. They would do well 

 enough, I think, if properly planted ; as it is, they are frequently winter- 

 killen when young. Hothouse grapes have been produced here in pretty 

 good condition in the garden of Mr. Longworth, and also in that of Mr. 

 Shoenberger, — under glass, of course, in both cases. — I remain, sir, your 

 sincere friend, M. Kelly, Cincinnati, August 21, 1848. 



Art. IV. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, August 5th, 1848. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

 held to-day, — the President in the chair. 



A copy of the Transactions of the New York Agricultural Society, Al- 

 bany, was received through B. W. Johnson, Secretary, and a vote of 

 thanks tendered for the same. 



John Schouler, West Cambridge, was elected a member. 



Adjourned for two weeks to August 19th. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From the President of the Society, six plants of 

 new and handsome gladiolus, cut flowers, &c. From John Cadness, Ces- 

 trura Aurantiacum, and cut flowers of new gladiolus, bouquets, &c. From 

 Messrs. Winships, a fine specimen of Erythrina Crista galli ; also, 

 bouquets, &c. From G. Gilbert, Plymouth, beautiful specimens of Sab- 

 hkiia chloToides, C. var. alba, O'rchis fimbri^ta, &c. From Hovey & Co., 

 specimens of Trachymene Cae'rulea, and phloxes, Standard of Perfection, 

 Princesse Marianne, Speculum, Goethe, &c. &c. Bouquets, cut flowers, 

 &c. from A Bowditch, 0. Johnson, J. Breck & Co., F. Putnam, W. Ken- 

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