152 Domestic JVotices. 



Salthill, and London and at Twickenham, nearly the form of Granta, 

 bri;:ht yellow, obtained prizes at Vauxhall. 



Qtieen^s Superha, (Wiiiner's,) named by the Queen at Salthill, raised 

 in 1835, and exhibited in 1835 and 1836; splendid habit, flowers rather 

 inclined to show the eye, but magnificent form; took extra prize at 

 Salthill, where twelve blooms were shown. 



These are only a few of the more remarkable which have been in 

 almost every stand of dahlias exhibited the past fall in Ensjland, and 

 are undoubtedly the finest kinds in cultivation, excepting, of course, the 

 new seedlings of 1837 which we enumerateil at the commencement of 

 this notice. Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir H. Fletcher, Juliet, Mrs. 

 Broadwood, Princess Victoria and orhers, are too well known, from 

 the specimens exhibiteil by Messrs. Hovey Sc Co., and other growers, 

 at the annual exhiliirion of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, to 

 require to be mentioned here. Lady Dartmouth and Marchioness of 

 Tavistock, possessed oidy by them in the vicinity of Boston, did not at- 

 tain sufficient size to bloom finely at the time of the exhibition in Sep- 

 tember, but they subsequently o[)ened some of the most superb blos- 

 sotns we have ever seen. We look forward with a great deal of inter- 

 est to the dahlia exhibitions of the coming season: and we have no 

 doubt but that they will far excel all previous displays. The liberal 

 premiums to be awarded by the Society will stiujulate both amateurs 

 and nurserymen to ijreater exertion, and the result will be a spirit of 

 enndation which will be most favorable to the spread of a taste for this 

 splendid flower. In aimther page we have recorded the names of the 

 flowers which were exhibited in the best stands in England last fall. — 

 Ed. 



A preventive as-ainst the ravages of the borer. — The following pa- 

 per from E. M. Richards, was read before the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural S )ciety, at a late meeting. It is worihy of attention. 



"Last week i:i a n<^ii;hboring town, I was conversing with a person, 

 whose apple trees, I had formerly kii'iwn, had been nuich injured by the 

 attacks of the borer; he mentioned that he had put clam shells round 

 them, rock weed, had earthed up the ground about them, and had made 

 excavations round them, with a view to arrest the destructiveness of the 

 borer; the above methods were tried at diflerent tin)es and at the sug- 

 gestion of dealers in trees, but to no good purpose, excepting that he 

 thought thnt the rock weed mii;ht possibly have been of a very little 

 service. He thinks that by an af-cidental circumstance, he hasdiscover- 

 ed a simple and complete remedy for the attacks of the borer. Having 

 a quantity of Southern wood, ..3rtemi<?rt c/7br6tanum, Avbich he wished to 

 remove, he transplanted some round one of his ai)ple trees, quite near to 

 the trunk; he very soon discovered that the borers had ceased their dep- 

 redations, which induced him to adopt the same mode with his other 

 trees, and the same result was ])roduced — the extirpation of the borers — 

 he lets the Southern remain; last year his trees produced very abundant- 

 ly. I would merely sugL'est whetlier wormwood, c'Jrtcinisia I'Jbsinthum 

 would not be equ;dly efiicacious — would they not be worth the trial to 

 quince, peach trees, &c. 



"If a plant of easy culture should be discovered which should have the 

 effect of keeping off canker worms, curculio, &.c. would it not be very 

 desirable.'' it is hardly to be hopcl-, it is possible that tho above conmui- 

 nication may be the means of turning attention to the subject, and with 

 this view I submit it to your disjjosal." 



Philadelphia Florists. — In our article in the commencement of this 

 volume, in speaking of the |)rogress of horticulture in Philadelphia, 

 we remarked that our correspondent, Mr. Mackenzie, formerly of Le- 

 mon Hill, had entered into the trade, and erected a small green-house, 



