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the manufacture of wine ; Dr. T. W. Harris, on injuri- 

 ous insects ; and Gen. Dearborn, besides original arti- 

 cles, contributed many translations from the Annales 

 de la Societ6 d'Horticulture de Paris and the Annales de 

 I'lnstitut Royal Horticole de Fromont. The production 

 of silk was then attracting much attention, and there 

 were several communications on the cultivation of the 

 mulberry tree and the care of silkworms. Interesting 

 letters accompanying donations of seeds, scions, fruit, 

 etc., and reports made from time to time by the presi- 

 dent on the general condition of the Society, were also 

 published in the same journal. 



After 1837, the Transactions, instead of being pub- 

 lished annually, were issued in thick pamphlets con- 

 taining the work of two or three years. In 1843 they 

 contained, besides the usual reports of exhibitions and 

 anniversaries, an article by Dr. Joel Burnett on the Cur- 

 culio, and in 1845 the Address delivered by Mr. Lunt at 

 the dedication of the first Horticultural Hall. In 1846 

 the By Laws were so amended as to provide for a stand- 

 ing Committee on Publication, and the next year the 

 Society commenced the issue of its Transactions in im- 

 perial octavo, with colored plates of fruits and flowers 

 in the highest style of art. Three numbers were pub- 

 lished, making one volume, which contained an Essay 

 on the History and Culture of the Pear, by Gen. Dear- 

 born ; Some Remarks on the Superiority of Native Va- 

 rieties of Fruit, by A. J. Downing ; The Hybridization 

 of .the Camellia Japonica and its Varieties, by the then 

 president, Marshall P. Wilder; An Analysis of the 

 Forms of Pears, by J. E. Teschemacher (which has 

 become the standard for the description of the forms of 

 this fruit) ; Results of the Cultivation of Six Kinds of 



