VOL. XII. NO. 50. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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MAPLE. (Acir.) 



Theke are nine sorts of this tree, enumerated 

 by botanists, in this country ; the most valuable ol 

 which is the sugar maple; of which kind only, 

 something shall be snid. 



Where the fanner wishes to save his sugar ma- 

 ple trees, lie ought not to tap them in the com- 

 mon way ; but, instead of this, bore a boh' two or 

 three inches into the tree, out of which the sap 

 can be drawn ; and let it be plugged tip after the 

 sap has done running. 



The method of making the sugar is too well 

 known to need any minute description. It would 

 be often well, however, if those who make this su- 

 gar, were to observe more cleanliness, in regard 

 to the vessels in which the sap is gathered. Old 

 troughs, which have lain for years exposed to the 

 weather, are not very proper receptacles for the 

 sap, if regard be had to the cleanliness of the su- 

 gar', and of course its value. Some make use of 

 vessels made in the form of pails, which tin y keep 

 for the purpose, and this is certainly more clean- 

 ly. The vessels can be laid up every year, after 

 the time of using them is past, and be preserved 

 many years. 



In clearing pasture lands which abound with 

 sugar maple, it would be well to preserve these 

 trees as they do no injury to the pasture ; but the 

 difficulty is, that as soon as they become more ex- 

 posed to the winds they are blown dowi . But 

 let all the small maples in such grounds be left, 

 and in a few years these will grow up with suffi- 

 cient strength of root to withstand the winds, and 

 become an article of profit, and ornamental to the 

 farm. They may also be very easily dug up in 

 the woodlands, and transplanted into such pas- 

 tures. 



This is a piece of economy which the farmer 

 would do well to observe, if be wishes his farm to. 

 yield due supplies of sugar, when tint article shall 

 have become more scarce. Twenty trees to an 

 acre, would do little or no injury to the pasture ; 

 and ten acres of such a maple orchard would, in a 

 few years, yield no inconsiderable quantity of su- 

 gar. By boring the trees as abo'e directed, no 

 essential injury is done to them; so that they 

 might be increasing in growth for half a century, 

 or perhaps double that length of lime. 



The sugar of the maple may be grained in the 

 manner directed for graining the sugar of the beet ; 

 or it may be done in the vessels in which the sap 

 is boiled, if it be not too large for the purpose. 



The trees may he raised from cuttings, or from 

 the seeds. — Farmer's Assistant. 



CHINESE MULBERRY. 



Wr. have heard of no one in this, part of the 

 State having lost a single plant of the Chinese 

 Mulberry; but on. the contrary have seen many 

 not in the least affected by the winter, even those 

 that had grown the last season five or six feet 

 from layers. We have raised them on highly 

 manured and on poor ground. Those on the for- 

 mer were slightly injured in the extremities of the 

 branches, but on the latter not at all. The White 

 Italian Mulberry raised from seed on the above 

 grounds, showed much greater injury from the 

 winter. — .V. Y. Farmer. 



HOW TO DESTROY MOLES. 



In the last Planter it is staled that the castor 

 bean will destroy moles, I have tried the red Pal- 

 ma Christa (which some say is the same,) with 

 success, merely by planting a few of the kernels 

 in their paths or ploughed places; also calomel, 

 bv making holes in grains of corn, and inserting it 

 iii the holes and placing the corn in the ground 

 for them. The calomel will not kill them till 

 there conies a rain, when they will be found on 

 the top of the ground. — Southern Planter. 



Adjourned to Saturday, June 28th, at 10 o'clock, 



A.M. 



The following members constitute the commit- 

 tee to take in consideration the expediency of a 

 public exhibition of fruit and flowers the ensuing 

 autumn — Messrs. Z.Cook, jr. G.W.Pratt, J. P. 

 Bradlee, W. E. Payne, .1. G. Joy, Joua. Winship, 

 I). Haggerston, S. Walker, Dr. S. A. Shun 

 Thos. .Mas. .n, Chas. Senior, R. I.. Emmons, CM. 

 Hovey, Wm. Kenrick, E. Vose, M. P. Wilder, 1. 

 P. Davis, I. Lemist, I. W. Runcle, 11. V. French 

 and G. C. Barrett. They are requested to meet at 

 the rooms of the Society on Saturday 28th .lun., 

 at 10 o'clock, as business of importance it is ex- 

 pected will come before them. 



Chas. M. Hovet, Sec. pro tern. 



PRESERVING AND PLANTING PEACH PITS. 



Seeds intended for planting should Be buried 

 in the ground immediately after the flesh is taken 

 from them, to prevent their becoming dry, as in 

 that case they are more sure to come up, than 

 when they arc allowed to dry and remain out of 

 the ground until late in the fall. Whether the 

 seeds are planted at first in the places where they 

 are to remain, or are buried as preparatory for 

 planting, it is important that they should be put 

 in the ground either before they become dry, or 

 so early in the season that they may swell again 

 before winter, and that they should be so near 

 the surface as to insure their being frozen, other- 

 wise they may lie in the ground, like rose and 

 thorn seed, one year before they will vegetate. — 

 N. Y. Farmer. 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



Horticultural Hall, June 21st. 



Strawberries. By E. Vose, a basket of Early 

 Virginia. 



By Thos. Hastings, East Cambridge, two boxes 

 of Keene's Seedling. 



By S. Pond, three boxes of Mulberry. 



By Thomas Mason, three boxes of Royal Scarlet. 



By Messrs. Hovey, Keene's Seedling and Royal 

 Scarlet. 



Apples. By E. M. Richards, a specimen of 

 Monstrous Pippin, (kept in paper.) 



For the Committee, E. M. Richards. 



PLANTING FOR CHILDREN. 



The strong desire existing in the human breast 

 to provide for offspring, converts, that toil which 

 produces sweat on the brow, into pleasant and 

 cheerful exercise. The Farmer rises early and 

 labors until the setting of the sun, planting, sowing, 

 and reaping — and all this to feed and clothe his 

 family, in the hope, too, of having a little annual 

 surplus for his children when he is gone ; but, 

 alas, how many toil in vain! — twenty, thirty, or 

 forty years of care and labor appear to have made 

 no provision for the rising members of the family. 

 Had there been plantations of valuable timber or 

 fruit trees made by the Farmer in his young days, 

 their produce would now give a son or daughter a 

 considerable " setting out." — jVew York Farmer. 



Cream of tarter, rubbed upon white kid gloves, 

 cleanses them very much. 



MOUNT AUBURN. 



This delightful place is daily visited by large 

 numbers of gentlemen and ladies. The carriages 

 and chaises of all, except proprietors of lots, are 

 left at the gate while the parties promenade the 

 grounds. Very great improvements have been 

 made since last season, and others are in progress. 

 The number of monuments erected, and on the 

 ground, is very considerable, and they are seen 

 through the trees in all directions ; many of them 

 are exceedingly neat and beautiful, and the grounds 

 around them are laid out with much taste. In 

 one lot the new-made grave of a child, is set round 

 with young flowers, to bloom and die. The ponds 

 have been neatly banked with grass, and flowering 

 plants and shrubs set out around the borders. — 

 Bunker Hill Aurora. 



TyiXssTliwncu^iOiAL society 



An adjourned meeting of the Mass. Hort. Soci- 

 ety was holden at their room on Saturday, June 

 •21st, and was called to order by the Vice Presi- 

 dent. 



Mr. G. W. Pratt declined serving as chairman 

 of the committee appointed at a former meeting. 



The following members were added to the com- 

 mittee— Z. Cook, jr. chairman ; Messrs. E. Vose, 

 M. P. Wilder, I. P. Davis, J. Lemist, J. W. Rus- 

 sell, B. V. French, and G. C. Barrett. 



EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 



Saturday, June 21st. 



Mr. Thos. Mason, Charlestown Vineyard — fine 

 double Ranunculus, do. Anemonies, 2 elegant Bou- 

 quets. 



Mr. S. Walker, Roxbury, Diantlius hortensie, 

 Bow's Claudius, &c. &c, Pasonia Whitleji, Astran- 

 tia major, Hesperis double white, do. do. purple, 

 Roses, &c. &c. 



Mr. Wm. Kenrick, Newton — Pseonia Whitleji ; 

 Iris pallida, large pale violet ; Hemerocallis flava, 

 or yellow day liily ; Blue Monkshood ; Great flow- 

 ering Chinese Larkspur ; Chinese Pinks ; Sweet 

 Williams ; varieties of Phlox ; Sweet Rockets , 

 Tradescantia, blue and white ; Podolyria australis; 

 Honeysuckles, Woodbines, Spireas.var. Roses, &e. 



Mr. George C. Barrett, from Mr. Joseph Breck, 

 of the Lancaster Garden— Adiantum pedatnm 

 (.Maiden's hair), Gillia capitata (azure blue an- 

 nual), Spirip fillipendula pleno (double Dropwort), 

 Diantlius barbatus of sorts (Sweet William) among 

 which was the double white ; Centauria of sorts 

 (annuals), Delphinium sinensis (double blue), do. 

 elatum (Ber Larkspur), Digitalis purpurea v. alba, 

 Preonia Whittleji, Papaver orieijtalis, Antirnnum 

 of sorts; Tradescantia, red, vyhite, blue— this will 

 continue to bloom every day in water ; Kal.nia 



Latifolia. 



Mr. Sauil. Pond, Cambridgeport— fine specimens 



Pinks and other flowers. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co.— fine double Ranunculus 

 and other flowers. 



Prof. Webster sent, to the gratification of all 

 present, some superior specimens of double Ranun- 



CU Also, was presented by Mrs. Archelaus Norcross, 

 a fine specimen of the new and beautiful MaCFO- 

 pbvlla Rose, the first ever exhibited at the Socie- 

 ty's rooms, and which justly excited the admira- 

 tion of all amateurs present. 



By order of the Committee, 



Jo.na. Wi.nship, Chairman. 



