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suitable pots, according to their size, keeping them in a close pit for a few 

 days, and syringing them every evening till they recovered from the check 

 they had received, giving air by degrees, till they could be fully exposed. 

 I then placed them in a shady situation until they were housed, Avhich was 

 when the other greenhouse plants were taken in-doors. I cut back two- 

 year-old plants as soon as they have done flowering, reducing the ball 

 when they commence growing; I afterwards shift them as they require it, 

 subjecting them exactly to the same treatment as young plants. ,1 find 

 that two-year-old plants bloom more freely than young plants, but the flow- 

 ers are not so large. — [Gard Chron., 1851, p. 804.) 



Art. II. Domestic JVotices. 



Twenty-fourth An.vual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society. — The next annual exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society will be held on the 22d, 2.3d and 24th of September 

 next. The schedule of premiums of the Society for 1852 appears in another 

 page. If a favorable year, we anticipate a great display of superior fruit. 



New York State Agricultural Society. — The annual meeting of 

 .the society was held at Albany on the 21st of January ; the president, 

 Mr. Delafield, in the chair. 



The treasurer reported that the receipts for the year 1851 had been 

 $17,218 07, and the expenditures $12,545 28; leaving a balance on hand 

 of $4G74 14; already invested, #7000; plate, for medals, $644; total, 

 #12,318 14. 



The following officers were chosen for the current year : — 



President — Henry Wager, of Oneida. 



Vice Presidents — 1st judicial districts, James Munroe; 2d, Lewis J. Mor- 

 ris; .3d, A. Van Bergen; 4th, W. C. Watson; 5th, T. S. Flaxton ; 6th, 

 O. Chamberlain ; 7th, Chas. Lee ; 8th, J. A. McElwain. 



Corresponding Secretary — D. B. Johnson. 



Recording Secretary — E. Corning, Jr. 



Treasurer — Luther Tucker. 



Executive Committee — J. H. Corney, J. T Blanchard, J. Butterfield, J. B. 

 Burnett, W. Kelly. 



The society decided that Utica shall be the place for holding the next 

 State fair. f 



Medals were awarded to several persons who received premiums at the 

 late World's Fair, and among them the following for agricultural imple- 

 ments and specimens of agricultural productions : — 



To Thomas Bell, of Westchester, Gen. Harman, of Western New York, 

 and Wm. Hotchkiss, of Monroe, each a gold medal for the best specimens 

 of wheat. 



D. B. Kirtland, of Rensselaer, silver medal for the best specimens of 

 corn. 



Messrs A. B. Allen & Co., of New York, a gold medal for cutlery. 



