Domestic Notices. 



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by leaving them all on, and at other times by breaking them down and let- 

 ting them hang, and again by removing half and shortening the other half 

 in July, and removing entirely in winter ; but, in all these various modes, 

 summer shoots, so destructive to blossom-buds, have been produced from 

 the spurs, and leaf-pruning has cured this apparently incurable evil. 

 Circumference of the Pears. 

 9 in. by 8 

 10 „ 8 



Napoleon . 

 Le Cure . 

 Passe Colmar dore 

 ,, „ Gris 

 St. Germain 

 Doyenne Goubault 

 Easter Beurre . 

 Colmar d'Arember 



n 



7 



n 



10 

 10| 



7 

 7 

 6 

 7 



8i 

 lOi 



Jalvie 



Beurre d'Aremberg . 



Gratioli of Jersey 



lyouise Bonne of Jersey 



Beurre d'Amanlis . 



Beurre de Capiaumont 



Thompson's 



9 in. by 8 

 8^ 



9 



9 



9i 



8^ 



7i 



7| 



H 



7 



The Easter Beurr6 is the only tree not planted last autumn. — [Gard. 

 Chron., 1848, p. 684.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Liberal Premiums for Seedling Grapes. — Mr. Longworth, at the last 

 meeting of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society, offered the following 

 premiums, remarking, previously, that if we wished to improve the quality 

 of our hardy grapes, we must raise from their seed, or seed from a crop be- 

 tween our native grapes and the best European varieties : — 



Fifty dollars for a seedling Catawba, of white, blue, or black color, equal 

 to the original. 



The same, for one of like color and quality, from the Ohio grape. 



The same, for one of like color and quality, from the Herbemond grape. 



The same, for one of like color and quality, from the Missouri grape. 



Mr. L. says, that, as regards color, it is not as difficult of accomplishment 

 as might be supposed. But few Catawba seedlings have been raised in 

 Cincinnati yet ; among them were three white ones. 



In raising from seed, the leaf will indicate what the quality of the fruit 

 will be, and much work may be avoided by throwing out all, whose foliage 

 is not as promising as that of the purest plant. — (Newspaper.) 



Arinual Exhibition of the New Bedford Horticultural Society. — Dear Sir, — 

 The Second Annual Exhibition of the New Bedford Horticultural Society 

 was held on the 27th, 28lh, and 29th of September last, at the City Hall 

 in this city. The show was very fine, and elicited the admiration of every 

 one who visited the Hall. The enclosed are the reports of the several 

 committees upon the occasion which you are at liberty to notice in your 

 Magazine of Horticulture, (should you choose to do so,) in any manner which 

 you may deem proper. — Yours, very truly, H. H. Crapo, New Bedford, Oc- 

 tober 20th, 1848. 



[The Report is quite interesting, and would occupy seven or eight pages 

 of our Magazine. Not having any room this month, we shall endeavor to 

 give an abstract of it in our December number. — Ed.] 



Horticultural Humbugs. — There are numbers of these which take period- 

 ical journeys in the papers, and are thus " rescued" as the Prairie Farm- 

 ers say, " from drowning." Among them, we may class the mode, so highly 



