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NRW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTOnTfRIDAY, DECEMBER U, 1829. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICl'LTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At a Rtatcil iiieetiiig of this Society, Iieli! at their 

 Hall, oil .Saturday, the 5th inst. the tullpwing gen- 

 tlemen wtre ndinitteJ a.s Menihers: — 



JouN Parkimso.n, Roxbury. 



Edward M. Richards, Didham. 



Leonard Stone, H'aleitucn. 



Aaron D. Weld, Jr., llonloti. 



J. B. Era.ncis, K'arwick, R. I. 



Ebe.ne/er Crafts, Roxhury. 



Jeremiah Fitch, Boston, 



UiciiARD Ward, Roxbun), 



J OS EI' II Balch, Jioston. 



Nathan Webster, Haveifiill. 



Wii.i.iAM CoTTiNG, }f'esl Cambridge. 



1*. B. llovEY, Jr., Cambridgtport. 



Abei. Houghton, Jr., Lynn. 



Elii'Iiai.et p. IIartshob.i, lioslon. 



Isaac Clapi", Dorchesttr. 



Daniel SiVAN,jVc(//br(/. 



David L. Child, Boston. 



James Bowdoin, " 

 . Isaac Parker, " 



Stephen H. Smith, Providtnce, R. 1. 



At the same time, the following' gentlemen 



were admitted Honorary .Members : — 



James Wardswouth, Esij. Geneaeo, .V. Y. 



J. K. Ingersoi.l, Esq. President of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society, Philudelphin. 



Jacob Lorrillard, Esij. President of the New 

 York Horticultural Society, .Veto I'orA:. 



Isaac Ciiacncy, Esq. U. S. Navy, Brooklyn, JV.F. 



John S. Skinner. F.=q F.ditnr -.r •!.« Amprir-.nn 

 Farmer, liallimore. 



Doct. Fischer, Professor of Botany, and Direct- 

 or of the Imi)crial Gardens at St Petersburg. 



Mr. F. Faldermann, Curator of the same. 



And the fuJIowing gentlemen as Corresponding 



Members. 



Doct. J. Smtth Rogers, Hartford, Conn. 



lion. J. F. Wi.noate, Balk, Me. 



Alexander Burtok, Esq. Consul of the U. S. 

 at Cadiz. 



Benjamin Gardner, Esq. Consul of the U. S. 

 at Palermo. 



Bernard He.nrv, Esq. Consul of the U. S. at 

 Gibraltar. 



Horatio Spracue, Esq. Gibraltar. 



William S. Rogers, Esq.,L^ S. Xavrj. 



Matthew C. Perrv, Esq. „ 



Wm. Wilso.n, Esq. .Veio York. 



Francis G. Carnes, Esq. Paris. 



John J. Palmer, Es(|. .Vtiv York. 



James Deeri.no, Esq. Portland, Me. 



The following resolutions were adopted : — 



That all seeds, plants, and other articles prc- 

 Bente<l to the Society, or puroliascd therefor, shall 

 be ilisposed of as the (-niincil iiiiiy direct. 



That the hevcral Professors of the Society he 

 exempted from the payment of the admission fee, 

 and annual subscription, during the period they 

 ehall exercise the diilies of their oflico. 



The meeting was then di.tsolved. 



At a meeting of the Council of the Society on 

 iho .'>ih instant, the following resoliitious wore 

 adopted : — 



1. Resolved — That an Executive Committee 

 of the Council be chosen, to consist of five iiiein- 

 bers, with authority to exercise all the [>owers of, 

 the Council ; and siiid Committee to convene at 

 such limes and places as may he deemed expedi- 

 ent, and to make report of its proceedings to the 

 Council, at the stated meetings of that hoard, and 

 at such other times ns may he required. 



2. Resolved — That the slateil meetings of the 

 Council shall he held at ten o'clock, A. M. on the 

 first Saturday in March, June, September, and 

 December, at the Hall of the Society. 



3. Resolved — That there be an addition of 

 one meiidier to the Library Committee. 



4. Resolved — Tliat all letters and communica- 

 tions to or from any officers or members of the 

 Society, which relate to objects for which it was 

 instituted, and it may he deemed expedient to pub- 

 lish, as a part of the Transactions of the Society, 

 shall he transmitted to the Library Committee, and 

 said Committee shall prepare them for, and super- 

 intend their jiiiblication. 



5. Resolved — That the four standing Commit- 

 tees of the Council prepare lists of such ob- 

 jects as they may think worthy of premiums, and 

 cause the same to he puhliphed in the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, during the month of January next. 



6. Resolved — That all seeds, plants, or other 

 articles presented to the Society, or purchased 

 thercfor,sliallbedisposed of as the Executive Com- 

 mittee may direct. 



The following gentlemen were then elected in 

 pursuaftpe of the preceding resolutions as the Ex- 

 ecittive Committee of the Council. 



Samdel Downer. 



Elias Piiinnev. 



Cheeveb Newhall. 



Charles Tappan. 



JoH.N B. Russell. 

 And Zebedee Cook, Jr. was added to the Li- 

 brary Committee. 



In further |)ursuancc of the above resolutions 

 it was requested that ])iiblic notice should be giv- 

 en to all those who propose to favor the Society 

 with communications upon any subject of interest 

 to the horticultural conmuinity, that they would 

 be pleased to transmit the same to Zebedee 

 Cook, Jr., Boston, for publication, under the di- 

 rection of the Library Committee. 



It was then voted, tliat the proceedings of tlie 

 meetings of the Society, and of the Council, and 

 the letters of Messrs Adlum, Maury, Rogers, 

 and Bill, which had Iieen previously read, be 

 ptihlislicd in the New England Farmer and Hor- 

 ticultural Journal. 



Hon. II. A. S. Dearborn, 



Pros. Rliiss. Ilorl. Soriely, 



" Sir — I had the honor duly to receive your favor 

 of last Aujrust, with a pampnlet of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, for which, be pleased to 

 accept my thanks. 



" 1 had the misfortune to have my leg fractured, 

 and just as 1 began to hop about upon one crutch, I 

 again got hurt, which prevented me from attending 

 to business as usual. 



" 1 now send you a box of sundries, made up as 

 follows, viz. — .'! sniall bottles of my Tukai/ wine ; 2 

 do. of Champaign, one made in 1827, and the other 

 in 18'-J8. Tlicy are both still, owing to tlie grapes 

 having been too ripe wlien they wore made into 

 wine; 2 bottles of Calnivha wine; all tiicse were 

 made of the Catawba grape ; 2 bottles of .hltiiiri's 

 Madeirit : this was made of the Bland .Madrira and 

 other grapes, mixed ; 2 do. of Domestic wine ; tliia 



is made of the SchuylkiU Muscadel, and otl'Pr prap« is- 

 Owing to our cool and wet season, ihcipnnst 

 more than one third of a crop of the cuilivat 

 grapes. In the first place, when the vines were 

 Liluom, there were heavy rains, which prevented t 

 Iruit from setting, or forming. In the second pi 

 considerable numbers of the grapes that were !i 

 ed cracked and dried up. In the third place, fn 

 the absence of the usual warm weather in Septe 

 ber, llie grapes were not as sweet as usual, neitl 

 were they of the usual size, except they were i 

 very sheltered situation, neither were they so jui 

 as of other years. Last year and the year before 

 bushel of grapes in the clusters that ucigbed fr 

 42 to 4K pounds, gave three and a quarter gallons 

 pure juice ; this year a bushel proiluced only I 

 gallons'and three quarters of pure juice, when < 

 » lid grapes in the woods and in our fields, were fa 

 tor than 1 ever knew them to be. I sent out f |t:' 

 hands, and they gatheicd as many as made a pi;' 

 1 10 gallons in two days ; it is of a very high ' 

 color, and 1 think, nay, I am sure, it will be i.. 

 better, than the l.'larets imported in wood in si 

 quantities within the last year. 



"2. An 0/iiT bottle of the Washington Cbt.iti 

 The tree that produced thesa nuts was sent to n' 

 the late Richard Peters, President of the I' 

 delpliia Agricultural Society. With the tn ■ . 

 sent nie some nuts which were eaten by the gr 

 mice after they were planted. The following .■ 

 extract of his letter, which accompanied the Irn.- 

 various other things. 



" ' My venerated tree was planted in 17f>7 or 17! 

 i(l think) and has borne about 4 years. I shouhlb 

 said the nut was then planted ; for the tree has 

 ver been removed; nor shall anything disturb 

 site whilst 1 remain to reverence it with far more 

 I miration than his votaries could bestow on Shaksjn i 

 .MiUberry. The aitificial monuments dcdicab: 

 the most celebrated of heroes, statesin<?n, or sa 

 of antiquity, arc baubles, in my estimation, compa 

 with this memorial of one, whose fame was fcuu 

 in the promotion of the happiness and safely of 

 human family; and not on the destruction or sul 

 gation of his fellow men. His precepts arc 

 philosophical theories, but practical lessons ; mb 

 gibleto all who read them in sinceiity and truth.' 



"3. Two ears of the Golden Sioux cotn. I 

 two ears of this corn ; there was a small hole i: 

 most every grain, made, I presume, by an inse ■ 

 planted some of tlic corn the last week in April, 

 the grains perished in the ground. Tliat whicli 

 left, was planted at two plantings ; viz. on the 1 

 day of June, and on the 11th day of July. Hi 

 very few grains of it grew. I was informed tl. 

 would ripen in between (10 and 70 days fruu. 

 time planted ; but owing to our cool and' wet v 

 ther, it did not ripen until late in the moi.J 

 October. It appears to me from this small csy 

 ment, that it ought to be planted in very rich grot 

 and in warm weather ; and I think it will do in 

 better to the AorM than with us in this latitude. 

 have a better corn for early roasting eais in 

 neighborhood, and, I Uiink, ccpially early. 



" 4. A few Crab .ipples, indigenous. I nc 

 saw any of this kind growing Lorth of this iiei 

 borhood. They arc used by llie farmers here 

 make apple toddy. The trees are not so large as 

 common wild Crab, and are very great bearers. 



'The last linio 1 over saw the General's face, he r 

 to take loavo <if mo ; brought the nuts u a present, 

 assisted in thus perpetuating his memory, wiihi iii 

 thcr of us believing it to bo a solemn ccrcinom-. v, 

 it then npiicared a diverting circumstance. His tr, 

 living and productive — I wish I cuuld say b.s imul 

 bis principles, llotb arc set in a good soil ; if tbat 

 the latter were more faithruliy cultivated. — 1 have i 

 about filly of the young trees. 2 years old, for sols, 

 produi'o of the true sont ino by Mr Petirs in 16 ' ' 

 and it bos boruc fruit fur ti ycon, ^^ 



