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Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



Nexomode of preserving Fruit. — Mr. Clapp of S. Reading lately placed 

 in our hands some fine specimens of last year's apples (nonsuches,) 

 in a most excellent state of preservation. He stated to us that the ap- 

 ples were packed in barrels, with plaster of Paris, reduced to a powder, 

 each fruit being completely covered. 'I he apples were exposed to a 

 temperature as low as zero, without receiving the least harm whatever. 

 We ho|)e this method will be further tried the j)resent season; it was 

 merely an experiment of Mr. Clapp's; but as it has succeeded so fully, 

 we should be glad to see it in general practice. Probably pears and 

 some other fruits may be preserved in the same manner. 'J"he apples 

 which we tasted were fair, and as fresh as they were when picked from 

 the tree, retaining all their flavor. — Cond. 



Cow Cabbage, or Ccesarean Kale. — In our II, p. 453, will be found a no- 

 tice of this cabbage. One or two plants are now growing at Mr. Cushing's, 

 Belmont Place. The seeds were sown in the green-house, and the plants 

 placed in the open garden in May. One plant had (a month since,) 

 attained the height of about seven feet, and was growing very vigorous- 

 ly. The leaves were not remarkably large, and although it may be a 

 profitable cabbage to raise for cattle, it possesses by no means the merits, 

 as such, which have been attributed to it in English publications. — Id. 



The amber Crab-apple. — The beautiful fruit of this variety is one of 

 the most ornamental in the garden. We lately saw a tree in the gar- 

 den of Mr. Johnson of Lynn, which was full of fruit, hanging in clus- 

 ters of five or six each. The growth of the tree is erect and handsome, 

 forming a fine round head, and is hiirhly ornamental in shrubberies, far 

 more so than the common crab. We would reconuiiend it to all per- 

 sons who are planting shrubberies or belts of ornamental trees. — Id. 



Large Valparaiso Squash. — At the late annual exhibition of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, a squash of this variety was exhibited, 

 which weighed upwards of seventy pounds. It was of a handsome 

 shape and fully ripe. This is the largest squash of this kind we ever 

 saw raised. — Id, 



'Phlox Drummondi. — We were delighted to see this charming new 

 plant, (discovered by Mr. Drummond, not manj' years since.) among 

 the fine display at the late annual exhibition of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society. We believe that it is a profuse and constant flower- 

 er, and equals, if not surpasses, almost all of the dwarf species. A 

 very pretty variety of P. paniculata, with a white 636 or disk, a seed- 

 ling of Mr. Breck's, we think, Avas also pointed out to us. — -*. [For 

 some notice of Phlox Drummond*, see p. 302. Breck's hybrid seedling 

 phlox is the name by which the variety here alluded to is known. It 

 grows about five feet high, in blooming among the latest, and is decided- 

 ly one of the most beautiful in cultivation. — Cond.'\ 



Yiola tricolor. — Like the tulip and dahlia, the pansy has arrived to 

 such a degree of perfection, as a fancy flower, as to possess certain re- 

 quisites indispensable to admit it into favor, among amateurs. The 

 good and necessary qualities in the form of petals, and in their coloring 

 and pencilling, pointed out by some adept, would give great satisfaction 

 to a sincere admirer of the — Three-colored Violet. 



Gradual Naturalization. — Calliopsis bicolor (Coreopsis tinctoria 

 Nutt.) seems in a fair way to become a naturalized plant, though, it is 

 presumable, not with the same facility as some foreign productions. I 

 met with several specimens in a meadow, into which it had strayed from 

 a contiguous garden, and a single individual growing in independent 

 hardihood, on the very road-side, distant from any cultivation, lu both 

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