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Ni:W ENGLAND FARMER, 



June 18,1830. 



MASSACllUSETT.S AGRICULTUKAL SOCI- currencc of the (li.^a|.i><.intiii-M.t!f ami vexutioiis 

 y/l'\\ j tliat liave for years aiteiidcd llitir cflbrls, to }ire- 



On the iiintli iiisi. the Annual Meeting of the ' serve and mature a portion of the fruits, that are 

 Massachusetts Society for I'ronioting Agriculture, | the prey of the Curcuho, they dare not enterlani 

 was held at the Hall of the Union Hank for the very sanguine expectations that any means can 

 choice of officers and other business. The Hon. 



Mr Lowell, who has long been Identified witl 

 its name and its interests, declined being again a 



he devised for the realization of their hopes, and 



anticipations of a faTorable result therefrom. 



they would not discourage the attempt, but 



Trustee; the office of President he relinquished | on the contrary would recommend that the sum 

 two or three years since. We cannot see Mr | of Iwo hundred dollars he appropriated from the 

 l^owELL withdrawing from the various circles 



where his ardor und his influence have been so 

 beneficial to our country, without a strong feeling 

 of regret, tempered always by the gratitude we 

 owe him for his faithful services ami his distin- 

 guished success. The Hon. Mr Gorham was 

 elected a Trustee in the place of Mr Lowell. 

 The other officers of the Society were reelected. 

 Mr Gorham declined acce[>ting the trust, from the 

 occupation of his time in other public engage- 

 ments. 



funds of the society, in aid of the same, atid that 

 a sub8cri()tion should be opened to which all 

 should he invited to contribute who feel an inter- 

 est in the success of an object so important and 

 interesting to the community at large. 



Your committee would further observe that the 

 sum propo.sed to be set apart from the funds 

 of the society, as well as that ra'.sed by vol- 

 untary subscription for the purpose before stated, 

 will not probably be required to be paid at present, 

 although they do indulge the hope while they dare 

 not entertain the bdief, that the persevering labors 

 and investigations of some one ere long may entitle 

 them to become the recipients of the contempla- 

 ted bounty, ZKBEDEE COOK, Jr, 



Boston, June 5, 1S30. 



A highly interesting and ingeaious essay upon 

 the habits and character of the canker worm de- 

 rivrd friin practical observati<ui was reail by the 

 President, and it was unanimously voted that the 

 same should be published in the New England 

 t'armer and Horticultural Journal. G. W. Hr*tt, 

 Esq. was then chosen a member of the Cominitiee 

 on Flowers, vice Auglstis Abpi.>waj,l, Esq. who 

 declined serving. 



In bohair uf the Commiucc. 



Dr Jacob Porter, of Plainfield, in the county 

 of Hampshire, has recently sent to the President 

 of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture, to be deposited in their Library, his Trans- 

 lation of Labarraque on the Chlorides, a hook 

 which should he in the hands of every master of 

 a family. A new Gras.s, to which Professor Tor 

 rey, of New York, has given the name of Poa 



elongata, Lontc vanicled Meadow Grass, has lately . , ,. 



, " ,. 1 I II n .. „„ ,1 „(• diencyol rcconunendmg some measures to prevent 



been di.scovered by Dr Porter ; some seeds ol ""-"'': . " „ r , , ■ , 



L- 1 1 • . J . .1 ,. '!'_., „.„„„ <■ .i,„ the wanton destruction of uselul birds, to report 



which be promises to send to the Irustees ot the ^ . „ . . 



Zebedee Cook, Jr, Esq. of Dorchester, was 

 appointed to deliver the anivcrsary address before 

 the society on the 15th of September next. 



A committee was chosen to consider the cxpe- 



Society, in the autumn. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



A special meeting of this society was held on 

 Saturday the 5th instant. 



The committee who had under consideration 

 the letter of Doctor Mease of Philadelphia, made 

 the following report which was accepted. 



REPORT. 



The Committee to whom was referred the 

 Communication of Doctor Mease of Philadelphia, 

 upon the subject of procuring by subscription or 

 otherwise, a sum of money to be paiil to any per- 

 son who shall discover a method for preventing 

 the ravages of the Curcuho upon the fruit of 

 Plum, and other trees, have attended to that duty 

 111 part and ask leave to report. 



That the subject is one of peculiar interest to 

 all the cultivators of fruits, expos(Nl to the destruc- 

 tive operations of that insert; as well as to the 

 public generally. It is in fact too afiparent to re- 

 quire frofn your committee an elaborate discussion 

 of its merits, or of the great advantage that would 

 ensue to the horticultural coiumunily by the dis- 

 covery of an effiictual preventive, against the at- 

 tacks of that insidious enemy. Your committee 

 have learned with much satisfaction, the zealous 

 and persevering effiirts iliat have been made, and 

 still continue! to occupy the attention of their 

 friends at the soulh, and more especially do they 

 feel gratified ami i iicoiiraged by the impulse that 

 is given to the promolion of this object, by one of 

 the sex to whom they are proinl on all occasions 

 to look to as the cxamplars of all that is good, and 

 amiable, and potriotic 



While your committee cordially ajiprovc of the 

 measure proposed, and are ihcply impressed with 

 the consideration of the benefits iliat would accrue 

 from the discovery of the means to prevent a re- 



al a future meeting of the society. 



It was voted that the treasurer be requested to 

 collect from the members, the amount of their 

 several subscriptions which may be due, on the 

 delivery of their Diplomas. 



The meeting was then adjourned to Saturday 

 the 12th current. 



At a meeting of the society held by adjourn- 

 ment for the 5th inst. the following business was 

 transacted. 



The thanks of the society were voted to the hon- 

 orable John Lowell for his donation for the pur- 

 chase of the ' Transactions of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society' in seven volumes ; and to Joh.n 



EXHIBITION OK FLOWERS, to, June 12, 1830. 



M*«5ACHesKTT! HOBTICULTUItA L SOClKTr. 



At the exhibition of Fruit &e, at the Hall on 

 Saturday I2tli of June, the following report was 

 maile by the Committee. 



From S. Dow.ner— ^fruit of a natural May Duke 

 Cli'Try from a seedling of Dorchefter — This is a 

 very excellent and valuable variety, flesh is me- 

 dium, hard, sprightly and of fine flavor, color a 

 bright red, size about tlie same as the Euro|(can 

 May Duke, and Stonc,also same size. Stem com- 

 mon length, a constant and good bearer, and comes 

 into eating eight to twelve days earlier than Euro- 

 pean May Duke ; do not all ripen at the same lime, 

 and are a popular cherry with the market men. 

 The tree does not run up pointed like the Mazzard, 

 hut branches out — the limbs inclining up, is full 

 of spurs, bark rough, and large protuberences on 

 the body, and large limbs when old. It is much 

 given. to early hearing and on that account not so 

 vigorous a growing tree. The leaves cnmmon size, 

 serrated, light green and glossy. — The history 

 and origin of this cherry, is gi\ ■ ii very satisfactorily 

 by Mr Ephraim Davenport of Dorchester, whose 

 grandfather, Ebenezer Davenport, planted the 

 stone from which the original tr' e S[irung, at tha 

 place where he now resides. He states that about 

 the year 1730, his grandfather planted the stones 

 of a quart of cherries purchased in Boston •■f 

 which only three plants came up — of llicsc one 

 was the parent of this variety, that the tree re- 

 mained in the garden till within thirty years, when 

 it was dug up, being almost dead with old age, 

 and that many trees of this variety which are now 

 cultivated round its immediate vicinity sprung froim< 

 suckers from this tree and its successors. It i8> 



worthy of remark that this fruit has now been cul 

 C. Gray Esq. for his contribution towards the in- jj^.^j^j ^^^^^ (|,j„, ^^venty years without the fruit's- 

 crease of the Library. I deteriorating or the present trees losing their vigor. 



And it was resolved that the several Commit- j The committee on fruits recommend that the 

 tees on Fruits, the products of the Kitchen Garden, .,,^^.j, „„,,,p,, eiurrv should be called Davenport's, 

 and Flowers, and the synonymes of fruits, which p,„.^, ,^,„^. i)„|,e and the following as svnonvmes. 

 were directed at the meeting held on the Stli of t)or"^.||pstcr Alav Duke, Early Mav Duke, .May 

 May last, to make weekly reports on the products jj,,^^.^ „„,, Natural Mav Duke, these being the 

 exhibited in the hall of the society, be required to j,jj„,^.^ ^^y „ ,,i^.|, ;, j^ „„„ known, 

 jiresent them for publication with distinctive cap- | ' g DOWNER 



lions, and that they be signed by the chairman, i„ t>«h«ir or ihe rommitioa. 



or such members of the Committees as may be j FLoRicrLTiRE. — With n'gard to the exhibition' 

 charged with the duty of i)reparing them for the of flowers, the committee made the following Re- 

 press, iport; — Very fine varieties of French Roses, fine- 



The following gentlemen were then admitted ' common Roses, and other Flowers, from S. Dow- 



members of the society 



Messrs He.nry Oxnard, Brookljin. 



William Eaoer, Boston. 



William Kei.lie, ' 



John W. Trull, ' 



Henry Higoinson, ' 



Lemuel Shaw, ' 



Sami'el Cabot, Itrooklyn. 



Joseph Fiei.u, JVestoiu 

 An order was pas.sed authorizing the Library 

 Committee to make such nrrangemcnis for the fii 



.NER. Fifty varieties of Flowersfrom Messrs Wi»- 

 sHip's Nursery, Brighton — Fine Roses from .Mr 

 RicHARns of DedhauL Roses and other flowere 

 from D. Haggersto.n of Cliarleslown. Tomorrow, 

 the exhibition of Roses is expected to be very 

 fine, when the names will be given. 



Early Potatoes and Early Turnip Reels, raised in 

 the open air, were oftered fi>r sale at the stall of 

 MrJ. BainGE, Faniiil Hall Market, on the 15th 

 iust. Tliev were raised by .Mr Samiei. Pilno of 



lure publication of the transactions of the society Camliridge, and were Uie first brought into tliA 

 08 they may deem expedient. ' market this season. 



