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PLUMS. 



McLaughlin, Cooper's Large Red (or Smith's Orleans), 

 and Reine Claude de Bavay, were recommended for general 

 cultivation ; and 



Ives's Seedling and Munroe Egg were added to the list 

 which promise well. 



raspberries and blacicberries. 



Knevet's Giant was highly praised, and added to the list 

 for general cultivation. 



The Orange, French and Walker varieties were added 

 to the list as promising well. 



The Lawton blackberry was highly praised by Mr. Saul, 

 and Mr. Prince thought it the most remarkable acquisition of 

 the blackberry kind. It was put on the list for trial. 



Needham's White was pronounced worthless. 



The time for adjournment having arrived, it was moved, 

 after presenting votes of thanks to the President and the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, that the Society adjourn to 

 meet in Rochester, N. Y., in September, 1856. 



The Volume contains a valuable report on some of the dis- 

 eases and insects attacking fruit trees, by Dr. T. W. Harris, 

 which we shall notice hereafter, and concludes with a list of 

 all the fruits adopted for general cultivation, or as promising 

 well, as also those rejected, but it is too long to copy here. 



PLEA FOR THE BIRDS THEIR UTILITY TO AGRICULTURE. 



BY WILSON FLAGG. 

 [Concluded.] 



Those birds which have been generally regarded with the 

 most prejudice, on account of their occasional thefts in our 

 orchards and cornfields, are among the most useful extermi- 

 nators of vermin. It ought to be considered that for every 

 grain of corn consumed by the birds, whole bushels would be 

 destroyed by weevils, if the birds were exterminated. Vin- 



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