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is a boiler, the water from which circulates in pipes at the back of 

 the house, while the smoke flue passes along the front. The vines 

 have been six years planted, are spurred in, and on each shoot only 

 one bunch is left to be matured; these bunches commonly weigh one 

 pound each. They are calculated to ripen the first week in July. 

 The weight of grapes cut annually from this house is 3 to 3^ cwt. 

 (or three hundred and thirty-six to three hundred and ninety-two 

 pounds.) This, the conductor states, is very seldom equalled, and 

 he is not aware that it has been often surpassed. 



Compare this account with the crop produced by our correspond- 

 ent, Mr. Johnson, whose diary of the culture of the grape we gave 

 at p. 209. Nine vines, occupying less than thirty feet in length of a 

 house of about the same dimensions, as regards breadth and height, 

 as that given above, only four years planted, produced two hundred 

 and thirty pounds! the bunches averaging nearly a pound and a 

 quarter throughout. Certainly our amateur cultivators need not 

 give up to the most successful of our transatlantic professional 

 men. — Ed. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. — The Committee of Arrangements for the coming annual 

 exhibition in September have been chosen, as will be seen by our 

 report in another page. This committee have appointed Wednes- 

 day, Thursday, and Friday, the 14th, 15th, and 16th of September, 

 as the days for holding the exhibition. A collation will be provided 

 for the members, to which ladies will be invited to attend. As the 

 season is auspicious thus far, we anticipate a splendid display of 

 flowers, and a rich treat of the finest fruits. — Ed. 



Mr. Walker''s Carnation Show. — We intended to have improved 

 the opportunity, when Mr. Walker's carnations were in bloom, to 

 have visited his garden and inspected the flowers; but we were pre- 

 vented from doing so by other engagements. Several of the blooms 

 which he has exhibited at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 

 rooms have been very splendid, and show that the carnation and 

 picotee can be grown in this country, if sufficient care is taken in 

 procuring good sorts, and giving them due attention during their 

 growth. — Id. 



Fine seedling Pinks in Washington. — Our correspondent, Mr. 

 Suter, of Washington, has succeeded in raising a great variety of 

 carnations and picotees, some of which are said to be superb. 

 Mr. Douglas, of that city, who has been on a visit here, informs us 

 that he has seen none to equal them since he left Washington. Mr. 

 Suter is a successful cultivator, and has raised several fine roses. — Id. 



