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recommended by one of our horticultural journals, of inserting buds of trees 

 bottom vpiuards to make them iveepng ! The plan of doing this was actualhj 

 witnessed in a nursery near the city of Derby, Eng. ; at least, so says the writer. 

 A friend of his in Brooklyn, N. Y., tried the plan on cherry trees, and, as 

 the experiment did not succeed, he attributed it to not carrying out the plan 

 by " coopering"^ them, as you would a barrel, that is, hoop down the shoots ! 

 The writer is really anxious that every body should at once set about ma- 

 king weepers of their fruit trees, for the reason, as he gallantly urges, 

 " that our better halves should not expose themselves to danger by clam- 

 bering up ladders to pluck the fruit." The editor, in a note, seriously 

 states that the " account of the effects produced by reverse budding is very 

 interesting to the curious amateur." — Ed. 



Gen. Hand Plum. — A notice and brief description of this new plum will 

 be found in our Magazine for 1846, (Vol. XII., p. 248,) which was, we be- 

 lieve, the first time it was made known to the public. Messrs. Sinclair 

 & Corse, of Baltimore, showed us a fine drawing of the fruit : from them we 

 obtained trees which have not yet come into bearing : it has a high reputa- 

 tion as a large and superior variety. — Ed. 



Abiitilon venhsum can be made quite a large shrub if planted out on a 

 good exposure in May or June ; the striatum I have found a shy bloomer 

 when turned out ; not so venosum, which is now, Sept. 15, a stately shrub 

 some seven feet high, with a fine crop of its deeply veined crimson flowers, 

 each one as large as an inverted cordial glass, — the foliage of a deeply 

 glossy green. — Yours, G. C. T., Astoria, N. Y. 



Great National Convention of Fruit Growers at New York. — Agreeably 

 to the notice which was issued by the American Institute, and which was 

 copied into our columns, (p. 423,) the Central Convention of Fruit Growers 

 met at Judson's Hotel, Broadway, New York, on the 10th of October. The 

 room not being sufficiently spacious to accommodate all the delegates, and 

 at the same time afford ample room to display the great quantity of fruit 

 sent for examination, the meeting adjourned to Clinton Hall. Between one 

 and two hundred delegates were present, from ten or twelve different States, 

 and, after a temporary organization, the following officers were elected : — 



M. P. Wilder, Boston, President. H. H. Crapo, New Bedford, Mass. ; 

 Dr. W. D. Brinkle. Penn. ; H. W. S. Cleaveland, N. J. ; J. A. Mcin- 

 tosh, Ohio; M. Y. Taylor, Va. ; L. Young, Ky. ; R. Mattison, Vt. ; 

 Dr, A. R. Munson, New Haven, Conn. ; Thos Allen, St. Louis, Mo. ; Dr. 

 R. S. Underbill, New York, Vice Presidents. R. B. Parsons, Flushing, 

 L. I., Geo. B. Deacon, Burlington, N. J., and P. Barry, Rochester, N. 

 Y., Secretaries. 



A special fruit committee of nine was appointed to present a list of 

 fruits, worthy of general cultivation, and report upon some of the varie- 

 ties presented for examination. Other committees were also appointed, of 

 which we shall give some account, when the proceedings are published. A 

 list of apples, pears, peaches, cherries and plums, was presented to the 

 Convention for their approbation, which, after considerable discussion, was 

 adopted with several alterations. Discussions also took place upon many 

 new and choice fruits, particularly pears. A general fruit committee was 



