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bloom. The boxes are very loosely put together with small nails, and, 

 when taken carefully apart, the very numerous roots of the tomato keep the 

 earth together, and the whole can be put in the ground without the tomato 

 being in the least retarded by transplanting. This spring, to support the 

 plants which I had started in this way in my grapery, I used some trim- 

 mings of a peach tree, and, on setting out the tomatoes a few days since, I 

 found that not only each peach twig was in leaf, but that most of them had 

 thrown out small roots an inch or two in length. The earth I used was 

 well decayed chip manure and garden mould. As this is apparently an easy 

 way of multiplying select peach trees without the trouble of budding,! make 

 the suggestion (perhaps not a new one) that, if you think it worth while, 

 you may make the experiment yourselves. — Yours, <Sfc., ^i. Huidekcper, 

 Meadville, Pa., June, 1847. 



New Horticultural Society. — A short time ago, p. 188, we noticed the 

 formation of several new Horticultural Associations. Since then, we have 

 been favored with accounts of several additional ones in various parts of the 

 country as follows : — The Detroit Horticultural Society, Detroit, Mich.; 

 the Albany Horticultural Society, Albany, N. Y. ; and the Montreal Horticul- 

 tural Society in Canada. The constitutions, by-laws, and lists of officeis of 

 each have been sent us by some of our correspondents or subscribers. We 

 are happy to notice this increased evidence of the spread of Horticultural 

 taste. — Ed. 



The American White Winter CalviUe Apple. — In your March number, 

 you have something about the White Calville apple. T have an old tree of 

 that name, and the fruit is pretty well described in that article. I think, 

 with our other fine apples, it came from France. The tree is nearly dead, 

 and is the only one I know of. — 1 am yours, respectfully, John Frothing- 

 ham, Montreal, April, 1847. 



Reid's Seedling Pear. — With your remarks in the Magazine about the 

 name of Reid's Seedling, which I noio consider the correct one, I am 

 much pleased ; they harmonize entirely with my views. I perceive 

 by Mr. Allen's article, in the Horticulturist for May, that Mr. Reid sowed 

 the seed from which the tree sprung. I hope you will insist upon this 

 name, as it is full time that the piopensity to rename old things and to 

 change the names of new ones, had a check given to it ; it is becoming ex- 

 ceedingly annoying as well as expensive to those who are not constantly 

 alive to all these manoeuvres and deceptions now practising in the horticul- 

 tural world, and it is the duty of the editors of horticultural magazines, who 

 are the recognized guardians of horticulturists, to protect them and detect 

 these deceptions. A case in point occurred here last autumn. A nursery- 

 man purchased from another a number of strawberry plants ; from some he 

 lost the labels — one of those proved to be of superior character, probably 

 well known to many, but took not at all as he is a new beginner. He im- 

 mediately dubbed it the " Excelsior strawberry," and advertised it as anew 

 variety, in the Cultivator of last September or October. This is downright 

 cheating, and is but one of many cases that are occurring every day. It 

 has a very injurious tendency, as many persons, who are not well informed, 



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