Vol. 



.—No. 9. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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should he made liy a coininitt'e of Arraiij;oiin;iit 

 to be cliOoTii by the lloniciiltural Society, vvitli 

 full powers lor lb:it |im-[)Ose. 



4. Tliat the cotniiiittt.'e of anaiigmetits should 

 have fall power to fill all vacancies occurring in 

 their own bod , and to appoint all suitab e officei s 

 !]to 'assist tlicm in tli' discharge of their duties ; ami 

 that they sliould give due public notice of the or- 

 der of their arrangnieuts when they shall have 

 been i-iiiii|iloi d. 



All whii-li is respectnilly submit ed. 



Joseph Stort, 

 Bii on/, 7- of the Cominil'e . 



Esq., Salem, quality rather indifferent. Mr Manning 

 also presented, Lowry's Bernraniot, sometimes called 

 Prince's Sugar Pear ; this last is embraced in the 

 collection of trees presented by the Messrs Prince 

 to the Society ; the specimen was over-ripe. Also, 

 the September Orange, a poor fruit, and the Grise 

 Bonne (Co.\e No. 17.) Tliis is sometimes errone- 

 ously called Green Catherine ; it is a pleasant pear, 

 and possesses a peculiar musk flavor. A further spe- 

 cimen of Mr Hooper's fine pear was received from 

 his garden in Marblehead. 



By Messrs Winships, the large Chelmsford Pears, 

 sometimes called Marquis. 



By Mr Ebenezer Ilalhorne, Salem, a pear, said 

 to be a seedling, of small size and rather ordinary. 



By Mr Wm. Poineroy, Brighton, the Verte longue 

 Committee of! or mouille houchc, and a delicate looking fruit, said 

 j to he called the Lady's Pear. 

 IT n ^y ^^^ Stephen Williams, two varieties, grown on 

 „■ imported trees, one a large greenish pear, the other 

 Joseph Story, Henry A. S. Dearborn, Charles 1 . I ^ [^^^ j^^,, ^^^1,5^ peculiar shaped russet ; neither 

 Curtis, Rev. Charles Lowell, Zebedee Cool<, Jr., y^^g recognised by the Committee. 



Resjlvnl, That a Consecrating 

 nine members be chosen. 



The following gentlemen were elected : 



J. T. Buckingham, Geo. VV. Brimmer, George 

 W. Pratt, Z. B. Adams. 



Resolved, That no fruit be eaten in the Hall of 

 the Society e.vrept by the Committee on Fruils, 

 and that all fruit sent for exhibition, and prenjium, 

 be di,<posed of by the persons who send them for 

 exhibition. 



George W. Beale, Q,uincy, D. L. Pickman, 

 Salem, J. C. Lee, Salem, Joshua Clapp, Boston, 

 Edward Codman, Boston, were admitted members. 

 ■ Adjourned to Saturday next, 11 o'clock. 



FLOWERS EXHIBITED. 



From Mr Carter of the Botanic Garden, Cam- 

 bridge, Amaryllis helladona,Delphinium grandiflora, 

 Lobelia ctelestina, a native. 



A large plant cf the Mimosa sensitiva, from E. 

 Briggs. 



Fine Asters, and other flowers, from H. A. Breed, 

 of Lynn. 



VKGETABLES. 



Sweet Potatoes of fine size and appearance were 

 exhibited by Mr N. Davenport, of Milton, who has 

 been very successful in their culture for several 

 years. 



Cape de Verd Squashes were presented by Capt. 

 Sturgis, and their seeds distributed. 



A. D. WILLIAMS. 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



Jlpples.—'B); Henry Corse, Esq. of Montreal, spe- 

 cimens of the Nonsuch, Reinctte Anglaise, and 

 Corse's Favorite ; these it will be recollected are 

 some of the varieties, the scions of which, were 

 kindly presented to the Society, in April last by that 

 "•entleman, and particularly described by him : the 

 Nonsuch was overripe, although this as well as the 

 Reinette Anglais.;, bore evident marks of fine fruit ; 

 Corse's Favorite possesses a high and very pleasant 

 flavor. 



By Stephen Williams, Esq. of Northboro', four 

 kinds of large fair looking apples, grown on trees 

 imported from Hamburgh in 1800, part of which 

 were not at maturity, one kind which was in eating, 

 the red variety, was thought to be a fine fruit. 



By Dr Robbins, of Roxbury, a basket of his hand- 

 some red apples. 



Pears.— By Mr R. Manning, from the garden of 

 Mr J. Gardner, Salem, large size Pears, very melt- 

 intr and of good flavor, the scions of which are said 

 to have been received from Hingham about 30 years 

 since, name unknown. Also, the ' Cabot Pear,' 

 raised by Joseph S. Cabot, Esq. of Salem, from the 

 seed of the Brown Beurre, which it somesvhat re- 

 sembles, but of less size ; the specimen remained on 

 the tree till overripe. Also, a variety supposed to be 

 the 'Bezy La Molte,' (Pom. Mag. No. 143) grown on 

 a tree imported from England by D. L. Pickman, 



By Perrin May, Esq., Brown Beurre. 

 By R. F. Phipps, Charlestown, a cluster contain- 

 ing five large size Bartlett Pears, from a graft of 

 1830 — Rouselette de Rheinis, and a fine specimen of 

 Andrews Pears. 



By John Prince, Esq., Dr Hunt's Connecticut 

 Pear, the Grise Bonne, and a handsome specimen of 

 the Fulton Pear ; this last is very productive, and 

 said to be gaining favor, but the committee have not 

 as yet seen the fruit entirely ripe. 



Peaches. — By Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn, a beautiful 

 specimen of the Heath freestone. 



By S. G. Perkins, Esq., a handsome cling-stone, 

 called the Pine Apple Peach, raised from the stone; 

 not at maturity. 



By Perrin May, Esq., large and fine cling-stone 

 Peaches. 



By Mr E. M. Richards, two varieties of natural 

 Peaches, both good, the cling-stone of remarkably 

 fine flavor. 



By Mr Aaron Baldwin, yellow rareripe, large and 

 fine. 



By Mr Geo. W. Bond, from the garden of Mrs 

 Sigourney,a very fine large size, round yellow seed- 

 ling Peach, grown on a tree of the second genera- 

 tion of the same kind — an excellent fruit. The 

 Committee recommend that it be called the 'Sigour- 

 ney Peach.' 



Grapes. — By Geo. W. Pratt, Esq., beautiful clus- 

 ters of White Chasselas and Black Hamburgh. 



By Mr Samuel Pond, a basket of fine white and 

 red Chasselas. 



By Mr Charles Senior, four clusters of handsome 

 white Chasselas. 



By Benj. Guild, Esq., specimens of Isabella, and 

 black Hamburgh. 



By Perrin May. Esq., handsome clusters of white 

 and red Chasselas and black Hamburgh. 



By Dr S. A. Shurtleft", Mr Sellers' black Grape.— 

 This fruit so closely resembles in appearance and 

 flavor the black Hamburgh, that the diSerence was 

 hardly to be discovered. 



By .Mr Amos Perry, of Sherburne, Fo.-c Grapes, of 

 large size, and sweet. 



All the grapes exhibited today were of open cul- 

 ture, and notwithstanding the foliage has suffered so 

 severely the present season, the fruit appears finer 

 and more perfectly ripened than for some time past. 

 In behalf of the Committee on Fruits. 



E. VOSE. 



Ilorticulturnniall, ) 

 Salutilny, Sept. 10, l»;il. ] 



EFFECTS OF BUDDING. 

 Thomas G. Fessenden, Esq. 



Noticing some comments upon the effects of the 

 graft, or inoculation upon the stock, I have merely 

 time to state the following — A hud of a peach tree 

 having the disease usually termed the Yellows^ in- 

 I serted in a healthy stock imparts to it the disease. 



— A bud of the Old Ncvvinglon whose natural fruit 

 is round, sweet, and luscious, inserted in the Bit- 

 ter Almond at five feet from the ground, produced 

 oval fruit of a bitterish flavor. The buds of the 

 Weeping Cherry inserted in the stock of a Maz- 

 ard Cherry, which latter has usually only a few 

 stron"' roots, causes it to have far more roots, many 

 of which are small and fibrous, difl'ering from those 

 usually appertaining to a Mazard Cherry. — These 

 facts my own eyes have wiuiessed, and my father 

 has many more in store, which he imparted about 

 2 years since to Jas. Mease, Esq. of Philadelphia at 

 the especial request of that gentleman. A society 

 in Europe offered two or three years since a premi- 

 um for the best disquisition on this subject, and my 

 father proposed being a candidate for the premium, 

 but omitted attending to it. I have no question that 

 lie is in possession of more facts on the subject, 

 than any person now living, for he has been for 

 above half a century a close observer. He is not 

 with me now or I might say more. 



ARRACACHA ROOTS. 



I notice some remarks also relative to the Arra- 

 cacha. We have continued to cultivate it since the 

 first period of its introduction to this country, which 

 I think was just about S years ago, and have never 

 lost it, as most others have, but have transmitted 

 many hundreds of the increase to France, England, 

 and to different parts of our own country. We 

 pursue the same course adopted by the Horticul- 

 tural Society of the Island of Jamaica and publish- 

 ed in their Transactions, from which it was copied 

 into the American Farmer 4 or 5 years since at 

 my suggestion. 



You can readily find it there by reference, but 

 if not 1 can lend you a copy of the Transactions. 

 We have two varieties of it, that are very distinct 

 in appearance and in quality. I recollect sending 

 a number of roots about four years since to J. 1). 

 Legare, Esq. Editor of the Southern Agriculturist, 

 but have not understood how he succeeded with it. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



Wm. Robert Prince. 



Lin. r.ol. Garden, N. V. ) 

 S^tpl. 9, i8;n. S 



Mohaiok Rail Road. — On Monday afternoon the 

 American locomotive De Witt Clinton, in return- 

 ing from Schentciaily, with a train of cars (jver- 

 took the coaches diawii by the horses, which 

 had started sometime previously, returned several 

 miles, overtook them again, and finally run 7 miles 

 and a half in 13 iijiiiuies. 



Yesterday morning the engine came down with 

 a train of 4 cars and 68 passengers in 35 min ites, 

 this being the quickest tiipyet made. The sp;ed 

 and power of this engine are now fully tested, 

 and the only thing reuiainiug is to ascertain the 

 most convenient fuel. 



The EuL'lish engine was taken up to the work 

 .-iliop at Schenectady yesterday. — Alhany Daily 

 Advertiser. 



Winter Melon. — .\t a meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Charleston, S. C. on the 10th ult. 

 ftlr J. I). Legare exiiibiied the winter melon of the 

 South of Europe, one of the properties of which 

 was its keeping perfectly .sound during the whole 

 winter. These melons it is said are raised in large 

 quantities on the shores of the Mediterranean and 

 in the Orange Gardens of Toulon, whence tha. 

 markets of Pans are supplied. 



