NEW EI^GErANB FARMER. 



PUBLISHED BY J. B. RUSSELL, AT NO. 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (at the Agricultural Warehouse.)— T. G. FKSSENUE:^, EDJTOR. 



VOL,. X. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1831. 



NO. 7. 



Horticulture. 



Proceedings of the Mitssachasetts Horticultural 

 Society at a meetinff, held al. the Hull of the 

 Inslitulion, on Saturday tht 27th of Jlug. 1831. 

 The President, H. A. S. Dcarhoni, made the fol- 

 lowing report. 



Tlie annexed letters have been received from 

 Doct. J. B. Van Mons of Lovain, in Belgium, the 

 most suect'ssfnl and distinguished cultivalor of new 

 varieties of fruits, and especially Pears, in modern 

 times. A largo portion of his life has been devoted 

 to this highly interesting and useful j)ursuit, and 

 the gardens of Europe ami this country are em- 

 bellished with the magnificent products of his in- 

 dustry and science. He has not only announced a 

 novel theory for obtaining ameliorateil fruits, but has 

 so skilfully applied it in his own celebrated gardens 

 that his name has become illustrious, among the 

 horticulturists ofall nations. His liberality towards 

 this society merits our gratitude, while hi.s assuran 

 ces of continued favors, cannot fail of being emi- 

 nently beneficial to its members, individually, as 

 well as to the whole country. 



LoYAix, F£B. 2S, 1831. 



Sir — At the time (20th of Feb.) J transmitted 

 to you a bundle of scions, I was excluded from my 

 large garden, in conseqnenceof its being inundatecl. 

 I therefore could include in the package only such 

 varieties as were to be found iji my two other 

 gardens ; but as my principal garden is now almost 

 free from water, I have made up a second bundl 



J I have been transferred to the faculty of modi- 

 cine. 



r send you a few engravings of my Poraogra[)hie 

 Belgiijue Modcrne. This work appears in the 

 Revue des Revues, but as it is published in distinct 

 parts, you shall be furnished with a complete copy, 

 when it is more advanced. 



I pray you, sir, to be assured of my very high 

 esteem. J. B. Van Mons. 



HENRif A. S. Dearbohn, 



Pl63.of the Mass. Hort. Soc. 



LoviiN, MiBCii 20, 1831. 



Sir — The bundle of scions was packed up 

 when I received from Mr Barnett, the consul of 

 your Republic n Paris, information, that he helil | 

 sidijpct to my order, the Diploma of Honorary 

 member of the Massachusetts llorticidtural Society. 



I pray you to be the organ, to express my grate- 

 ful acknowledgments, to the illustrious Society 

 over which you preside, for the honorable and 

 distinguished manner in which it has been pleased 

 to notice m3, and to accept my sincere thanks for 

 the active part you have taken in my behalf. 



I have ;he honor to be, sir, your very humble 

 and obedient servant and fellow mendier. 



J. B. Van Mons. 

 Henry A. S. Dearborn, 



Pres. of Uie Mass. Hnrl. Soc. 



Catilogue of the Pear Scions sent to the Mass. 

 Hort. Society, by Doc't. Van Mons. 

 \ renberg, 



Th 



Curtet, 

 • d'hiver, 

 . ranee, 

 ■ Diel, 



Hardenpont, 



composed, as was the first, of such varieties as I ' Beurre bronze, 

 possess, of the greaiest merit and of very recent 

 production. I add a variety of 1830, which, after 

 having been pronounced e.xquisite, by amateurs, 

 I have designateil with your name. The trees in 

 my garden li.ive run a great risk of being cut down, 

 to be used in the construction of barricafles. ] 

 should have been consoled by the motive which 

 induced suc:h a noble employment of them. The 

 hands of the ladies were armed with the a.xcs for 

 effecting their destruction, the men were called in- 

 to battle. But why should I have murmured at an 

 event, produced imdersiicli peculiar circumstances. 

 My laiiour of ihirtyeight years might have been 

 lost, but it would have contributeil to enable me to 

 die a Free Citizen. Still I should have e.xperi- 

 enced regret, in not having it in my power to offer 

 you scions, from the tree.s which would have been 

 destroyed. 



The package may not reach you for some time, 

 but let not that induce you to doubt of success in 

 using the grafts which it contains. I shoidd remind 

 you, that some scions, which were sent me from 

 New York, by my eleve Gerard, were two years 



Bonnet beurre 



Belle alliance, 



Eakpeer, 



Eosc, 



Bosc (Vi'Xk, 



Brandos, 



Bis Marie Louise, 



Bezi de Louvain, 



Bonchretien d'Espagne 



fondante, 

 Capucine Van Mons, 

 Clara, 



Crommen boom, 

 DelbRC, 

 Des veterans. 

 Doyenne de Mons, 

 — gris. 



Dingier, 

 and a half on the way, still I grafteil them, by | D'Amantles double, 

 copulation, upon adult trees one on each branch, j Di"e'') 

 and not any of them failed. It wa.s in the mid- '^'"""rtier, 

 die of September. A scion is never too old, or Oelice d'Ardempont, 

 rather too dry, not to succei'd, provided it has been De bruyn, 

 cut from a living tree, or from one that has not D" parrain, 

 perished by a natural death. Artificial death, such 

 as that occasioned by deplantation, does not injure, 

 in the least, the excellence of the scion. 



The,suppre.»sion of the faculty of physical scien- 



es and mathematics, in our university has put an 



nd to my lectures on Chemistry and Horticulture. 



Henri IV. 



Henri Van Mons, 



Henkel, 



Innomin^e, 



Jubin, 



Leon Le Clerc, 



Louis ed Prusse, 



Marie Louise, 



Marie Louise nova, 



Maree, 



Mabille, 



Napoleon, 



Navez, 



Niel, 



Nouvelle cire, 



O'ken d'hyver. 



Pastorale, 



Paileaii, 



Poir Duval, 



Passe Colinar, 



Rameau, 

 Rousselette Sulin, 



■ lie Meester, 



Van Mons, 



Spoelberch, 



Spence, 



Sabine, 



Sentelet, 



Serrurier, 



Spreeun, 



Urbaniste, 



Williaum, 



Wnrtemberg. 



e engravings of th(; pears which were pre- 

 sented by Doct. Van Mons, represent the follow- 

 ing varieties. 



Vicomte-De-S|)oelberch 



Henri-Van Mons. 



Innomiriee. 



Bezy Vaet. 



Serruiier D'Automne. 



Beurre Spense. 



Delices D'Hardnnpont. 



Brandes (Siiint Germain) 



Fredeiie-De-Wurieinburg, 



Fondante-Des-Bois. 



Beurre Curtet 

 I Beurre D'Arendierg, formerly called Colmar- 

 Des-Champs Beurre D es Orphelins and Beurre 

 D'llardeufont. 



Colinar Bonnet. 



Leon Liclerc. 



The engravings have been put into a portfolio 

 and placed n the Library of the Society. 



The portion of the Revue Des Revues, in whicli 

 arc included detached parts of Doct. Van Mons 

 Pomographle Belgique Modernc, furnishes the fol- 

 io iviiig descriptions of the four first named pears. 



VicoMTE De Spoelberch. 

 ryJ. B. Van Mons. 

 spoelherchia (Vice comes) saliva, fructu magno. 



Fleur de neige, 

 Fondante des bois, 

 Gros bruyn, I 



Also—No. 541—608, 609, 757, 887, 896 

 1001, 1125, 1175, 11.52, of his catalogue being 

 choice unnamed varieties. 



Pyr , ___ _____ ^ 



subroluiido, riijo«o, rufo-fusco ad solem striis purpuraceis 

 ahilucto parte .loli adversa, iiiaculis satuie viridibusdis- 

 inicto, caine butyracea, suaveolente, dulci.ssima, sapid- 

 issima ; brumali. 



Tho branchf^pf tlie Vicomte de Spoelberch 

 grow erect, ailid are beti't'tovvards the stock. The 

 annual shoots are small without being slim, and 

 are wrinkled and contorted. They incline at the 

 end towards tho branch which bears them. They 

 are brown and finely speckled with dirty white. 

 The two years' old wood loses its wrinkles, or 

 ridges, and is covered with a gray epidermis ; the 

 freckles then become very prominent and more ap- 

 parent and this prominency of the dots increases 

 in proportion as the wood advances in age. The 

 tree does not bear a single thorn and l' doubt 

 whether it ever produced any. 



The leaves are elongate, narrower at the outer 

 end, than touanls the petiole, irregularly indented, 

 smooth, thick, dark green and borne on a slender 

 petiole; on the annual shoots they are variously 

 wrinkled, or folded, the shoots are hairy, contor-. 

 ted and of a pale bluish green ; the flower is of 

 a medium size, petals firm, col•diforn^ interrupted 

 and hollowed like the bowl of a spoon. 



The fruit varies in size according to the greater 

 or less quantity produced. Its form would be 

 spherical, if it was not swelled out and flattened 

 towards the eye, and contracted near the stem. 

 The skin is rough, of a brownish red on the side 

 towards the sun, spotted with purple, and on the 

 opposite side it is of a deep green. The spots,^ 

 are rather blotches than dots. The eye is sinall^ 

 and but little sunk, only sufiiciently deep to pro- 

 tect tho leaves of the calyx. The peduncle later- 

 ally inserted, is placed in a cavity, but slightly 

 hollowe.l. It is swelled out near the middle and 

 the largest diameter is from the stem to the calyx. 

 The seeds are five, black, plump, and closely 

 pressed in their cells^ 



