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being about ten inches in length, having a small leaf at the 

 extremity not more than two thirds of an inch diameter. 

 These plants all showed flower buds, but none of them could 

 be made to flower, notwithstanding that the greatest care and 

 attention was bestowed upon them ; the eff"ort to throvv^ up 

 the buds appeared to exhaust their powers, and the whole of 

 the plants soon died. 



The results under the blue glass were very different. The 

 roots germinated a little less quickly than they did in the 

 open ground, forming compact, healthy plants, developing 

 their flower buds strongly and flowering in perfection. 



From the foregoing experiments, it will be easily perceived 

 that the medium which insulates the chemical rays most 

 perfectly, is the one under which the process of vegetation 

 has been most perfectly conducted and sustained ; and, as 

 will be shown in continuation, under the blue glass alone has 

 vegetation gone on healthful to the end." 



Roxbury, September 16^/i, 1852. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. III. Pomological Gossip. 



Pears that succeed on the Q^uince. — At the recent State 

 Fair of the New York Horticultural Society, held at Utica, 

 on the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th of September, there was quite 

 an assemblage of cultivators from diff"erent parts of the coun- 

 try, many of them from the west, on their way to the Pomo- 

 logical Convention, at Philadelphia. Among them we noticed 

 Dr. J. A. Warder, of Cincinnati ; L. Young, of Louisville, 

 Ky. ; F. R. Elliott, Cleveland, O. ; E. Redmond, Augusta, Ga. ; 

 J. J. Thomas and P. Barry, Rochester; W. R. Prince, Flush- 

 ing ; Prof. Coppock, Bufl'alo ; Dr. Thompson, Aurora. With 

 such an assemblage, it was decided to hold a " talk " during 

 the evenings of the fair, when subjects interesting to the 

 horticulturist or pomologist might be discussed, and informa- 

 tion elicited. 



