Vol. XI.-Nd. 8. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



59 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Satubd»t, Sept. I, 1832. 



Fine flowers. — Messrs VViiisliip'a display as 

 usual very elegant. Mr S. Walker of Roxbury, and 

 J. Kenrick of Newton, exhibited bouquets of the 

 first order. Messrs Winship's stand contained 

 ainoHj,' others, the following new varieties. Sag- 

 itaria plena, Vernonia nova boracensis, Hibiscus 

 palusirn, do. alba, do. hybrida, do. mitilaris, Big- 

 nonia sinensis grandiflora, &c. &c. Messrs Ken- 

 rick presented beautiful specimens of Paragon, 

 Chanipuey, and Noisette roses. Two blossoms of 

 the Night Blooming Ceres, preserved in spirit by 

 Gardner Greene, Esq. Ffuit frotn Mr Maiuiing 

 of Salem, Old Orleans Plum of England, Den- 

 mark Rouge of France, White Gage, .American. 

 Apples of a fine flavor, name unknown, from Mr 

 E. M. Richards. Messrs Winship presented a 

 basket of fruit received by them from a gentleman 

 deservedly ranked among the first of agricultur- 

 ists, and to whose exertions we are indebted for 

 very many of the products of the garden, orchard 

 and vineyard, which enhance the luxuries of our 

 tables. The following is a description of the fruit 

 contained in the basket. 



J^pplcs from scions given me by Hon. George 

 Cabot, brought in the Minerva, by the elder Capt. 

 Scott ; the scions were intended for Mr Vaughan 

 of Hallowell, but the Minerva was captured and 

 carried to France ; the prospect of detention was 

 sucli that Mr Vaughan desired Mr Cabot to distrib- 

 ute them in Boston and its environs. I received 

 the scions May 17, 1804, and had them grafted the 

 19th of May following. This wa.s called the 

 White Apple ; is an early sweet ajjple, and may 

 bs considered a good early baking apple. 



Another apple, frotn Mr Cabot, received at the 

 same time as the above, called Codiin, and differ- 

 ing in appearance from any other Codiin I have 

 met with, being tinged with red, yet proves an ex- 

 cellent apple for culinary purposes, and is a reg- 

 ular and good bearer. 



Golden Pippin. From my trees — imported prob- 

 ably by the uncle of Col. Apthorp, who purchased 

 my Oakland Farm, on which 1 reside, of Capt. 

 Harding, who came from Jamaica and built the 

 house r now occupy, was the first settler. I con- 

 aider my Golden Pippin trees at least 70 or 80 

 years old. It is near a centin-y since Capt. Hard- 

 ing purchased the spot, and you will acknowledge 

 he was a man of taste. 



Summer Bell Flower. — Scions from Philadel- 

 phia; pleasant late summer and early fall fruit. 



Thornton Pippin, frotn Thornton, N. II. A 

 tree raised from seed by the Rev. Dr Noah Wor- 

 cester, tiow with us. Soon after he removed to 

 Brighton, he ate some of my Golden Pipi)ins, and 

 he, v/ith every member of his family, retuarked, 

 that it w.is precisely like the apjile at Thortiton 

 which he raised from seed. I was induced to send 

 to Thornton for some of the scions, and yon will 

 perceive that the Doctor and family were mistak- 

 en. It is a pippin, and great bearer — tree now 

 loaded with fruit 



Gravenstein. A very fine fall apple scion from 

 S. G. Perkins, Esq. from a tree which he received 

 from Germany. In point of flavor, which is aro- 

 matic, it compares with the description of the 

 Mela Caria apple, as given in the London Ponio- 

 logiral Magazine. You have all it bore this year. 



J^/onpareil Apple. Tree now full of fruit ; is a 



very fitie winter apple ; keeps till spring; retains 

 its juiciness and apple flavor, far superior to the 

 best winter Russet : sells at a higher price in 

 England than any other apple brought to market, as 

 I have been infortned ; original tree from England. 



Borosseau. Scions from Montreal, of the Rus- 

 set fatiiily, keeps well, is more juiry than the Rus- 

 set, and far superior. 



Red Cidville, and is not your Grand Sachem. 

 Scions I had from the late Dr Dexter, from a tiee 

 sent him from France by Mr Parker. 



Golden Russet. Scions from a tree imported 

 by Lieut. Governor Dummer, and put out on the 

 fartn he lived on in Byefield, and which he left bj 

 will for the purpose of endowing an academy ; it 

 was among the first academies incorijorated, and 

 bears the natne of Dummer Academy — when first 

 established, in years gone by, known as Dumtner 

 School — the celebrated Mr Moody, first Preceptor ; 

 it lias not gone hack, as we fartners say, and I 

 advise ydu to send your boy there, and induce 

 your friends to send their children. 



Biston Codiin. From the garden of my late 

 fathfr in Boston, cut down with reluctance by 

 WtJi Sturgis, E.sq. whose buildings are oit the 

 groind it occupied : it was the first apple forcnli- 

 nar» purposes, and what was peculiar it kept 

 till late in the fall, and then an excellent table a])ple. 



Boston Pippin. Tree removed from my late 

 father's garden in Boston before it was sold by me; 

 the tree was captured during our revolutionary 

 Wiir in a vessel bound from London to Quebec ; 

 tht vessel brought into Boston, and the tree re- 

 ceiied from the late Mr Giay, who lived at the 

 liewl of Atkinson street ; it .was sick when I re- 

 iTii/ved it, but is convalescent, and bore the one 

 app'e I send you. 



three of my English Hybrid J^uts. A substi- 

 tute for the English Walnut ; considered equally 

 as pod for pickling. 



Ji very good Sweet Apple. If I ever had a n.ime 

 havt lost it, but it is a good apple ; the tree grows 

 behiid Rev. Dr Worcester's house; the boys are 

 so find of it they are hardly willing to let me share 

 it wth them. I know sotne of them, and perhaps 

 ougit to complain to the instructor of the school 

 the' attend, but some of my reminiscences opera- 

 ted so strongly I could not find it in my heart; but 

 I d( regret their eating so much eveti of ripe fruit 

 thisseason. You must excuse my hasty letter, 

 and you can say to your friends, if they like the 

 frul and wish to cultivate it, you can proctire for 

 thein buds this season, or scions next spring, 

 wihoiit money and without price. 



Ion. H. A. S. Dearborn, Roxbury, Early Davis 

 A|ples, (Sopsavine,) and the Transparent Apple 

 of the Crimea, from St Petersburg. 



Mr Witiship presented the Eilitor of N. E. 

 Fanier a spletidid bouquet for "\vhich we request 

 hit) to accept of our acknowledgments. We iloubt 

 wiether Mahomet's Paradise, or the Gardens of 

 <hj Hesperides ever aff'oided anything equal to it. 

 Tiere were also, presented for exhiliilion, Saffito- 

 tiil latifolia, Rudbeckia grandiflora, Eryilirina cris- 

 taialli, Datuia arborea, Argemone grandiflora and 

 Ofiroleuca, Asclepiascurrassavica, Phlox Carolina, 

 Ai-lepias fruticosa, Loasa, (species) Passiflora 

 ptjnceps, AracocephalutTi variegatum, Coujmelina 

 fnm Botanic Garden, Catnbridge. 



The following gentlemen were appointed a 

 Cdmudltee to report next Saturday what mcas- 

 uns shall be taken for celebrating the anniversary 



of the Mass. Hort. Society : Mr Vast, Mr Pratt, 

 Dr Shnrtleff, Mr Winship, Mr Barthtt. 



Robert Ragerson was elected a tncmber of the 

 Society. 



Per order of the President of the M. H. S. 



S. A SHURTLEFF. 



From the American Firmor. 



LIME.— SWEET POTATOES. 



Mr Smith — I would be glad if some of your 

 correspondents, through the medium of the Farm- 

 er, would make knowti the cheapest and best way 

 of burning Lime, and the proper time to ajiply it 

 to the ground. I noticed, some time since, a pub- 

 lication from a Georgian, telling how he saved 

 sweet potatoes, and that it was more difl'icult to 

 save them than it was to i-aise them. I will just 

 state to you the plan that I have followed fiu- about 

 ten years with complete success. When I dig my 

 potatoes, 1 immediately or the same day put them 

 into a cellar, or potato house btiilt for the purpose, 

 and mix dry dirt with thetn plentifully as I put 

 them in, and after I get them all in, put dirt enough 

 on top to exclude the air entirely, and not disturb 

 them so as to let in the air until next spritig. If 

 this plan is followed, I am confident the potatoes 

 will be as sound in the spring as they were when 

 put up. But, let it be clearly understood, that 

 they are to be mixed with, and covered by, dirt, 

 so as to exclude the air entirely. J. M. 



RHUBARB. 



We ought to have added to the article written 

 by the Editor of the American Farmer, and cop- 

 ied in our 23d number from the Southern Agri- 

 culturist, that all subsequent trials of the rhubarb 

 in diarrlicea, either in children or adults, have 

 proved wonderfully tfliicacious. Dtiringthe pres- 

 ent summer our children have had frequetit attacks 

 of sutnmer complaint, and we have applied the 

 usual remedies with very little efiect. In each 

 instance we have been obliged to resort to the 

 rhubarb at last. We have ventured to make these 

 trials of the usual remedies, the more efliectually 

 to put both them and the rhubarb to a fair test, and 

 feel authorised by numerous instatices of its suc- 

 cess, and by the absence of a single failure, to say, 

 that the rhuliarb conserve is unequalled as a rem- 

 edy for common bowel complaints in children and 

 adults. A tea spoon full of the conserve s|uead 

 on a piece of dry bread is the best mode of ad- 

 ministering it, and of this children are very fond. 



PLASTER AND LEACHED ASHES. 



Mr Goodsf.ll — I have observed in your pa- 

 per much saiil on the eftects of plaster. From 

 my own experience, I am mucli in favor of plas- 

 ter. I use from three to five tons yearly ; and 

 when I ajijily it to corn, which I have dotie for 

 three years past, I mix it with one half leached 

 ashes, as they are leached for cotnmon family use; 

 l)ut it in a cart, and shovel and mix it well. I then 

 put one gill to the hill immediately after the first 

 hoeing, anil the same thing over after the second 

 hoeing. I have tried the Sfime quantity of clear 

 plaster, side and side, twice, and find the mixture 

 to produce the greatest effects. The two ingredi- 

 ents, when mixed, appear to produce a much 

 greater power of attraction. My neighbors tried it 

 last season, to great satisfaction, and will hereafter 

 use them mixed even if the cost were the same. 



Gen. Farmer.\ J. SPICER. 



