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Peaches are a very uncertain crop with us — they will fail say about 3 

 years out of 5 ; the trees are great growers and the buds are generally 

 winter killed. Apples and plums will probably do well here, but pears are 

 apt to blossom too early, and the sun is, I think, apt to l)e too hot for cherry 

 trees ; in fact, it troubles some of our apple trees so, that, on the south side 

 of the trunk and limbs, the bark turns black and dies, and some of them 

 will be killed by it. In your last number, you say the Julienne pear is " a 

 very vigorous grower." (I quote the substance, without looking at the 

 article.) What I have received /or that kind, has always been a sickly 

 looking and growing kind, and the trees have always died in a year or two ; 

 but I have a graft of it on an apple stock, (not in the root but on the trunk,) 

 which grows well, and I hope to see the fruit in a year or two. What was 

 sent me as Domine Dull plum, blossoms very full every year, but, like the 

 Cherry plum, the fruit is never set, or but very few, which soon fall off. 

 The tree is very vigorous, and the kind is said " to bear to a fault." We 

 have fruited but few of our trees, although we have had some of them 

 seven or eight years. Golden Russet — one tree is true — one from another 

 source proves to be the Yellow Siberian Crab, (a slight mistake ;) Mon- 

 strous Pippin proves to be a medium sized summer fruit, (do. do. ;) Bartlett 

 pear will probably prove to be Passe Colmar, and so I suppose it will be 

 with the majority of one lot of trees. I have no confidence in any of the 

 labels. Our samples of Golden Russet and of Ribston Pippin, were very 

 fine for the first year of bearing. Red Siberian Crab bears well, also the 

 yellow, — the latter tree is our earliest fruit tree to leaf out in the spring. — 

 Yours, respectfulli/, Edioard S. L. Richardson, Kendall, Kendall Co., 111., 

 Nov. 1849. 



Art. IV. Exhibitions of Horticultural Societies. 



New Bedford Horticultural Society. — The third annual exhibition of this 

 society was held at the City Hall, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 

 the 26th, 27th, and 28th of September, 1849. The report which has been 

 forwarded by our correspondent, Mr. Crapo, is too long to insert entire, and 

 we therefore copy the prefatory remarks of the committee, with the names 

 of a few of the principal exhibitors of fruits and flowers: — 



The Committee on Fruits present the following as their report: — 



They have much pleasure, in the outset of their report, in being able to 

 state, that the display of fruits on the occasion was excellent and far ex- 

 ceeded their most sanguine expectations ; for, in addition to the scarcity of 

 almost every kind of fruit which has so generally prevailed the current 

 year, the society has been deprived of the aid of many of its former con- 

 tributors and most zealous cultivators, who are now absent from us, seeking 

 a more golden harvest in other climes. 



Notwithstanding, however, these and many other discouraging circum- 

 stances, which have attended the exhibition, the efforts of the society, in 

 this department at least, have been crowned with success. 



