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THE GENESEE FAR3IER 



July 9, 1831. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 

 IIORTICtIl.TIJR.AL EXHIBITION. 



The Domestic Horticultural Society of the 

 Western Part of New York, held its stated meet- 

 ing at Canandaigua, on Thursday, the 30th June. 

 The day proved favorable for the exhibition, 

 and the meeting was attended by a large number 

 of the resident and distant members, and by many 

 ladies and respectable strangers ; all of whom e- 

 v-inced the highest satisfaction with the fine dis- 

 play of vegetables, fruits, plants and flowers. 



Without particularising, where the whole ex- 

 hibition was excellent, we will merely observe, 

 'hat some specimens of Cape of Good Hope let- 

 tuce, from the garden of Mr. Fellows ; cauliflow- 

 ers from the same garden, and from that of Mr. 

 Butler of Geneva]; early turnips, beets, onions, 

 &c. &c. from the gardens of Mr. William H. Ad- 

 ams and Mr. Howard of Lyons ; early potatoes 

 from the garden of Mr. Guernsey of Pittsford ; 

 cucumbers from that of Mr. Pomeroy ; various 

 /egetabtes, fruits, and green house plants from the 

 garden of Mr. Greig of Canandaigua ; a profu- 

 sion of flowers from different sources — were all 

 of superior quality and beauty, and excited in the 

 spectators the warmest admiration. 

 The following were the premiums awarded 

 FOR FRUITS. 

 To W. H. Adams, for the best quart of 



Ripe Strawberries, $2,00 



Ditto next best do 1 



W. S. DeZeng, best qt. Raspberries 2 



W. W. Gorham, next best do 1 



L. Jenkins, best qt. ripe cherries. 2 



Moses Atwater, next best do. 1 



Oliver Phelps, best qt gooseberries 2 



Joseph Fellows, next best do 1 



CULINARY VEGETABLES. 

 Vo E. C. Howard, best half peck green peas 

 in the pod, $3 



R. Pomeroy, next best do. 1 



W. H. Adams, best half peck string beans 



in the pod 2 



Ditto best dozen young turnips 1 



R. Pomeroy, next best do. 50 



W. H. Adams, best doz. young Onions 1 

 James K. Guernsey, next best do 50 



Joseph Fellows, young potatoes 1 



Charles Butler, next best do 1 



E. C. Howard, do 50 



Joseph Fellows, best 32 cabbage heads 2 

 Charles Butler, next best do 50 



Joseph Fellows, best 6 lettuce plants 1 



E. C. Howard, best 25 radishes 50 



VV. H. Adams, next best do 25 



Do best G blood beets 1 



E. C. Howard, next best do 50 



W. H. Adams, best 6 cucumbers 1 



'oseph Fellows, next best do 50 



E. C. Howard, best doz. Carrots 1 



W. H. Adams, next best do 50 



Joseph Fellows, Cauliflower 1 



Charles Butler, do 1 



R. Pomeroy, best squash 1 



FLOWERS, PLANTS, & 

 To E. C. Howard, most beautiful and dei 



rable double Tulip — dried specimen 1 

 Do do do single do ] 



Do do Monthly Rose 1 



Do next best do 50 



Joseph Fellows, most beautiful and desira- 

 ble hardy rose 1 



John Greig, next best do do 50 



Mrs. T. Chapin most beautiful specimen 

 of Flowers of six sorts, 1 



Mrs. Joy, most beautiful specimen of pinks 

 of six sorts 1 



Mrs. Ward, do do of a Passion Flower 1 



James D. Bemis, do do of a Fig Tree 1 



John Greig, do do of Orange and Lemon 

 Trees, Aloes, Myrtle, &c. 1 



At 12 o'clock, the Society repaired to the Epis- 

 copal Church, where a learned and appropriate 

 address was delivered by Doct. Cutbusii of Ge- 

 neva College. The thanks of the Society were 

 presented to the orator, and a copy of the address j 

 requested for publication, by a unananimous vote. 



At half past two o'clock, the Society sat down 

 to a dinner, prepared in Col. Blossom's best style 

 — where, in addition to his wonted supply of ex- 

 cellent viands, the vegetables and fruits furnished 

 by the Society, afforded the most palatable and 

 convincing proof of the utility and success of 

 Horticultural Associations. 



The President of the Society, John Greig.Esq. 

 presided at the table, assisted by the first Vice 

 President, James K. Guernsey, Esq. 



Besides Col. Blossom's choice store of foreign 

 wines, the company were regaled with very good 

 domestic wine from the vineyard of Major Ad- 

 lum, and a superior article of currant wine, pre- 

 sented by O. Phelps, Esq. of Canandaigua. Sev- 

 eral respectable foreign gentlemen honoured the 

 Society with their presence at dinner. Many 

 piquant and appropriate toasts were drunk — the 

 afternoon passed oft* with the utmost good feeling 

 — and the company separated with increased 

 zeal in the cause of Horticultural improvement. 



The autumnal Meeting of the Society was ap- 

 pointed to be held at Lyons, on Wednesday the 

 21st of September next ; and the following gen 

 tlemen named as the committee of arrangements 

 for the occasion : — Myron Hclley, Wm, H. Ad- 

 ams, E. C. Howard, Samuel Hecox, Graham H. 

 Chapin. It was made the duty of the Committee 

 to appoint an orator, and to publish and transmit, 

 seasonably, to each member of the Society, a list 

 of the premiums to be awarded. 



The following resolution introduced by the Re- 

 cording Secretary, and seconded by Jared Wilson, 

 Esq. was unanimously adopted. The mover and 

 seconder of the resolution bore testimony to the 

 able and useful manner in which the Genc«ee 

 Farmer had been conducted ; and their commen- 

 dations were heartily and eloquently concurred in 

 by Vice President Guernsey and Mark H. Sib- 

 ley, Esqs. 



Resolved, That we earnestly recommend the 

 Genesee FARMEB|pubIished by Messrs. L. Tuck- 

 er & Co., Rochester, to the patronage of all the 

 members of this Horticultural Society, and to the 

 Farmers and Horticulturists of our country — and 

 that we hope that the members of this Society, 

 and Agriculturists generally, will deem it a duty, 

 as a means of mutual public instruction, to com- 

 municate their opinions, and the results of their 

 experiments, to the columns of this valuable jour- 

 nal. 



The proceedings of the Domestic Horticultural 

 Society, at its meeting in Geneva, on the 28lh of" 

 September last, not having been fully published, 



it is deemed proper now to state, that at that meet 

 ing a resolution was adopted — admitting the 

 wives and daughters of the members, and other 

 ladies proposed by them, as honorary members of 

 the Society, entitled to receive its premiums, and 

 respectfully invited to honor its meetings with 

 their presence. 



On the same occasion, Judge Buel, of Alba 

 ny, and Doctor James Mease, of Philadelphia, 

 were elected honorary members of the Society. 

 Z. BARTON STOUT, Ree. Sec'y. 



FOR HIE GENESEE FARMER. 



THE LOCUST. 



The insect which appears at long stated pen 

 ods, called the locust, is the Cicada Seplemdccem 

 of Linnaeus, taking its specific name from the 

 years (17) of each period.* It has been said, how- 

 ever, that there is some variation in these periods, 

 and 15 and 16 years have also been mentioned ; 

 but of this I have no satisfactory evidence, and 

 consider such variations very improbable. 



In the 1st volume of the Transactions of the 

 American Philosophical Society is a paper on the 

 manners of this insect by Moses Bartram., who 

 appears to have examined it with great attention. 

 At present I have not access to that book, and a 

 lapse of almost 40 years since I saw it, has im- 

 paired the distinctness of my memory, but I will 

 endeavor to give a few particulars. 



The locust, during its short existence in theper~ 

 feet state is- not known to feed on any vegetable, 

 unless it is some exudation from the leaves. The 

 damage sustained in our orchards, &c. is caused 

 by the perforations of the female at the time that 

 she deposits her eggs. Of the branch of a nec- 

 tarine now lying before me, (6 mo. 27,) and which 

 broke down in consequence of these perforations, 

 I observe that the diameter is about } of an inch — 

 that the solid wood is cut and splintered, so that 

 the eggs are not pressed as they would bo if the 

 wood was only split — that the direction of these 

 incisions is slanting downward, forming an an- 

 gle of 20° or 25° with the branch, but not passing 

 beyond the pith — and that the eggs are 2, 3, or 4 

 in each place. 



M. Bartram ascertained that in a month or two 

 the eggs hatched, and the young locusts passed 

 down the tree, and entered the ground. Some ob- 

 servers have spoken of 4 feet as a depth at which 

 the insect has been found in after years j and if 

 is nearly certain that in this state they never wan 

 der much in a lateral direction. Where the holes 

 in only one spot of a clear field, were very nume- 

 rous and contiguous, caused by the ascent of lo- 

 custs, it was recollected that 17 years before, a 

 tree had stood there, although every trace of it had 

 long before disappeared. 



There is one remarkable fact in the history of 

 the locust, of which I havo seen no notice in the 

 course of my reading : — though it observes the 

 stated period of 17 years, yet in different parts 

 of the some region it comes forth in different 

 years. My attention was first directed to this an- 

 omaly by an old man who remarked that " the lo- 

 cust year in Virginia was not the same as in Penn- 

 sylvania." In the summer of 1800 on my return 

 from this place towards Philadelphia, I first en- 

 countered the locusts on the north side of a small 



"A few locuats are sometimes heard in the inter- 

 mediate summers, but I suspect thes« ate a difftnn' 

 species. 



