SI Domestic Notices. 



nice little plants, before time to plant them out. I consider it preferable, to 

 keep the plants in the cutting pots during winter : for, after considerable 

 practical experience, I find they keep much better than when potted off 

 singly. They also require less room, which is a matter of considerable im- 

 portance ; for, if potted after spring, they will grow very well in turf pits, 

 with a little bottom heat, or any similar place, which would be wholly un- 

 fit to keep them in during winter. It would be impossible to say which 

 are the best varieties, there are so many whose merits are equal ; the ob- 

 ject is, to get the hardiest and most free-growing kinds of each class ; that 

 is, if they are the most distiiLCt. I always prefer the upright growing va- 

 rieties, as they make the best beds. I never peg down a verbena, as I con- 

 sider the beds have a bad effect so managed ; insteadof pegging them down, 

 I stick a quantity of small twigs in the bed, and tie the shoots to them. — 

 [Gard. Journal, 1818, p. 420.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society. The annual 

 meeting took place at the Assembly Chamber in Albany, on Wednesday, 

 January 17th, 1849. 



L. F. Allen, Esq., the President, called the meeting to order, when the 

 following officers were elected for 1849. 



President : John A. King, of Queens. 



Vice Presidents : James Monroe, of New York. Saxton Smith, of Put- 

 nam. E. P. Prentice, of Albany. Le Roy Mowry, of Washington. Wil- 

 liam Fuller, of Onondaga. David Maine, of Madison. John Dclafield, of 

 Seneca. Henry W. Rodgers, of Erie. 



Corresponding Secretary : Benjamin P. Johnson, of Albany. 



Recording Secretary: John McD. Mclntyre, of Albany. 



Treasurer: Luther Tucker, of Albany. Executive Committee: J. B. 

 Burnet, of Onondaga. P. N. Rust, of Onondaga. Henry Wager, of Onei- 

 da. J. J. Viele, of Rensselaer. Samuel Cheever, of Saratoga. 



Mr. Johnson, the Secretary, announced to the meeting, that he had re- 

 ceived from Mr. Hovey, of Boston, a splendid volume of Hovey's Fruits of 

 America, as a present to the Society, and, on motion of Mr. Marks, of 

 Greene, 



Resolved, unanimously. That the thanks of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society be presented to C. M. Hovey, of Boston, for the gift to the 

 Society of his superb work on the ^'Fruits of America.^' 



The President having alluded to the splendid collection of valuable fruits, 

 which had been brought together on the tables of the Society, — 



On motion, R-solced, That Messrs. Wendell, Howard and Johnson, be a 

 committee to prepare samples of our best winter fruits, and forward a box to 

 the London, Paris, and Belgium Horticultural Societies, with a letter from 

 the Secretary of the Society, in relation to the same. 



Resolved, That the committee do recommend to the Executive Commit- 

 tee, the city of Syracuse as the location of the next fair, provided security 



