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part of April, when it had been closely covered 

 with snow full five months. The consequence is, 

 that the winter grain which grew so flourishing 

 last fidi, appears to be totally dead and rotten, sup- 

 posed to have been smothered. 



Some modern naturalists say, that vegetables 

 respine and cannot exist without fresh air. From 

 what I see in the paper.*!, it appears, that the loss 

 of winter grain may be general in this State. — 

 Some accounts say, that the farmers in the South- 

 ern States are ploughing up their fields sown with 

 wheat, interning them for oats and Indian corn. 



I hope to see in your paper, the observations of 

 gentlemen in different places on the eflecis of the 

 late winter. SAMUIiL PRESTON. 



SlockpoH, Pa., May 9, 1832. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, held this day, Saturday, May 19, 1832, the 

 following letters were commimicated and ordered 

 to be printed in the New England Farmer and 

 Horticultural Journal. 



Florence, Dec. 1,1831. 

 H. A. S De4RB0R», President of the Mass. Holt. Soc, Boston,— 



Sir — in cotnpli.ince with the request contained in 

 your favor of August 13th, 1829, and December 6th, 1830, 

 I have piocined and now transmit to the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, a collection of garden scedsof Tus- 

 cany. Happy, if I can coniribuie luy niite lo the ad- 

 vancement o( your useful Institution, whose olject is of 

 common inieiest to every country. 



I transmit, likewise, to your Society, some flower seeds 

 which i have procured at the request of Capt. Matthew 

 C. Periy, coinmanding the United States Sloop Concord, 

 io the Mediterranean. 



I have the honor to be, with great respect, your very 

 humble and obedient servant, 



JAMES OMBROSl, 

 Coiisvl of the United States at Florence. 



C United States Consulate, 

 I Puerto Cabello, Feb. 11, 1832. 

 To Zebedee Cuok, Je. Escj , lot Vice President of the Mass. Hort. 



floe, Boston, — 



Sir — I do myself the pleasure to acknowledge the 

 receipt of your letter, under date of the 12lh of December 

 last, accompanied with a diploma, advi-ing me of hav'ng 

 been elected an honorary member of tlte Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society ,Boston,as also with a panjphkt con- 

 taining the charter, constitution, &c, of tlie Institution. 



I beg of you lo tender to tlie Society my most sincere 

 tbanks for the honor conferred ; and I shall be happy from 

 time to time to communicate such information as 1 may 

 possess or acquire heie, on the interesting subject of rural 

 economy, li will also afford me much salislaciion lo for- 

 ward the Society any seeds, plants, scions, or trees, that 

 I can procure, and may deem worthy of ils .atieiition — 

 and in reiurn, will be obliged for a few of the scions of 

 «onie of your select gra4)es, as well as a few of the spruce, 

 white and pilch pine, cypress, apple, apricot, and pear 

 trees. 



I have the honor to be, verv respectfully, your most 

 obedient servant, FRANKLIN LITCHFIELD. 



Charleston, Feb. 29, 1832. 

 To tfie President of the Horticultural Society of Boston,— 



Sir — A Society having been lately formed in this 

 eity, with designs similar to your own, I hive been in- 

 structed to communicate with you, and to solicit your aid 

 in furthering the common object in which we are engaged. 

 With you, it would be unnecessary to enlarge upon the 

 importance of this undertaking, and of the many benefits 

 it bestows upon the human family, not only in improving 

 their physical but their moral condition. Fully inipre: 

 ed with tliis belief, we request from you, as our elde 

 fiom time to time, such information as may lie suited to 

 our situation, as well as any pamphlets, communications, 

 &c, yon may thfnk proper to send to us; and shall be 

 happy to reciprocate in such exchanges as our climate, 

 soil, and progress in improvement will aft'ird. 



I am. Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 H. R. FROST, 

 Cor. Sec'y Charleston Hort. Society. 



C Horticultural Hall, 



I Boston, March 16, 1832. 



De.4ii Sir — I have great pleasure in acknowledging 

 the receipt of your respected favor of the 29lh ult. and 

 take leave lo assure you, that the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society will be happy to form and cherish a cor- 

 respondence with their brethren of South Carolina, who 

 are engaged in the pleasuig and useful pursuits of 

 horticulture. 



It will at all times afford me pleasure to communicate 

 anything connected with the objects of our common la- 

 bors, and to transmit such publications as may hom time 

 lo tinie be made under the directions of the Society. 1 

 would lake leave to recommend to your special notice the 

 New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal, a week 

 ly publication of great merit, which is devoted to such 

 siilijects as are inleresting and instructive to all persons 

 eng.iged in agriculture, &c, &c. The proceedings of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society are given to the pub- 

 lic through the medium of the columns of Ihis paper. 



Will you do me Ihe favor to transmit lo me a list of the 

 names comprising Ibe government of your Society. I 

 had proposed to myself the pleasure of requesting a friend 

 in your city, to obtain this information, for only two days 

 prior lo the receipt of your letter, that 1 might present 

 such of them as come within our prescribed rules, touch- 

 ing officers of other societies, to the honors of ours. 



liidulging the hope of hearing Irom you at an early 

 period, I have the honor to be, dear Sir, very re- 

 spectfully, your most obedient servant, 



ZEBEUEE COOK, Jr., 

 \st Vice President of the Mass. Hort, Society. 



H. R. Frost, Esq. 

 Cor. Secretarj Charleston Hort. Society, Cliarlcston, S. C. 



Boston, March, 1832. 

 Z. Cook, Jr. £»« , Vice President of Horticultural Society — 



Sir — I send you herewith a box containing fortytwo 

 pots of flower seeds, received by the Alert, from China, 

 through the obliging aUention of Mr Forbes, resident at 

 Canton, He has noi sent, nor could he probably obtain 

 the English or botanical names of the seeds ; each pot 

 contains the seed of different plants; as the seeds appear 

 to have been packed with care, I am in hopes that through 

 your agency, some of them at least will be successfully 

 cultivated. They will all require the aid of the green- 

 hou-e ; and you will make such disposition ol them as 

 you may judge best. Your obedient servant, 



T. H. PERKINS. 



Havana, April 2, 1832. 

 To Zebedee Cook, Jr. Es*.— 



Dear Sir — I send you herewith four labelled papers 

 of seeds, which were given me by the Bavarian Barou 

 de Karvinski, a botanist who lately arrived from Mexico, 

 where he has resided several years. The Cactii may 

 never succeed in our climate, and perhaps also the Thro- 

 broina or Cocao tree, which, however, have been planted 

 here ; and of the latter, I have sent some of the seed to 

 Key West. But the Indian corn may be an acquisition 

 to the country; the ear from which these grains were 

 taken was at least eighteen inches long, and the Baron 

 tells me the stalk or plant is like a small tree, it therefore 

 merits youi attention. I know little or nothing of these 

 things. Sir, but I am ever ready lo give all the aid in my 

 power towards the promotion of science. 



1 remain, very respectfully, dear Sir, your most oblig- 

 ed servant, WM. SHALER. 



The fiower and vegetable seeds presented to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by the 

 Hon. Thomas H. Perkins, M. C. Perry, Esq., Wm. 

 Shaler, Esq., and James Ombrosi, will be distrib- 

 uted to members of the Society on Saturday next, 

 the 26tb inst. at 11 o'clock, at the Horticultural 

 Hall. 



CURE FOR GLANDERS. 



In looking over a late number of the Lancet, a 

 medical work published in London, we find an 

 article devoted to the treatment of the above dis- 

 ease, which is so frequent and fatal among horses. 



The first medical measure recommended is a 

 pure atmosphere. It is said that glanders is the 

 peculiar disease of stable horses, and it is urged 

 that the horse must be turned out where he can at 

 all times be surrounded by pure and cool air. — 



This must constitute the foiiiKlation of hope, in all 

 attempts to remove the complaint. It !.s in vain to 

 use local or other medicines upon the horse, while 

 heis confined in the stable. No sound horse should 

 be permitted to be in the pasture or inclosure 

 where the glandered horse is. A field should be 

 devoted to the infected animal, and neither cattle 

 nor sheep should feed in the same ground with 

 him, because the virus may be communicated even 

 to them. 



Local applications, such as injections, &c, to the 

 nostrils, are deemed useless if not prejudicial, be- 

 cause they only serve to increase the morbid irri- 

 tation already existing in the effected part. 



Counter irritants, such as blisters or setons along 

 the nasal bones should not be omitted, provided 

 the animal gives indications of pain when pressed 

 there by the fingers. 



Tonics, particularly the sulphate of copper, 

 (blue stone,) have been found efficacious where 

 the strength of the horse is considerably reduced. 

 The copper will act as a general tonic, and at the 

 same time with peculiar local determination. Its 

 effects in healing nasal abrasions and arresting na- 

 sal discharges, is thought to be unquestionable. It 

 may be given in doses of sixty grains once or twice 

 a day. It may be dissolved in if bucket of water. 



Feeding Swine. — The London Horticultural 

 Register says, "Those who wish that these ani- 

 mals should have a sharp appetite, whilst they are 

 fattening, must give them a couple of handfuls of 

 dried oats once a day ; taking care to have a sup- 

 ply for some days forward constantly on hand. 

 For this purpose, a layer of oats must be placed 

 in a pan ; salt must then be strewed over it, and 

 the whole moistened with a little water; taking 

 care, however, not to fill the pan to the brim, as 

 the moifeture will swell the grain." 



Mushrooms. — To ascertain whether what ap- 

 pears to be mushrooms are so or not, a little salt 

 should be sprinkled on the inner or sponge part — 

 if in a short time afterwards they turn yellow, they 

 are a poisonous kind of fungus; but if black, they 

 may be considered genuine mushrooms. They 

 should never be eaten without this test, as the best 

 judges may be occasionally deceived. — Horticultu- 

 ral Register. 



Rival to the " Mkaline Drops " of Dr Granville. 

 — The Exeter (N. H.) News Letter states, that it 

 is a remarkable fact, that not an individual in Eu- 

 rope has been attacked with the cholera, who has 

 been in the habit of subscribing and paying for a 



Meadow Land. — Mowing land in Hatfield mea- 

 dow has recently been sold at two hundred and 

 seventyfive dollars per acre, and arable land at one 

 hundred and thirty dollars. The highest price 

 ever given for mowing land in Northampton mea- 

 dow is one hundred and sixty dollars, and for 

 ploughing land about one hundred dollars. The 

 price of lands in the meadows of Northampton, 

 Hadley and Hatfield, was never higher than at the 

 present season. For many years, the price of land 

 has been considerably higher in"Hatfield than ia 

 the other two towns. — Hampshire Gazette. 



A gentleman in Tennessee advertises, that he 

 has discovered, that strewing Indian meal on cu- 

 cumber hills will prevent insects and reptiles from 

 approaching the vines. 



