1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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Horticultural Festivals in Boston and PM'a. 



We had, during the past month, the pleasure 

 of attending the exhibitions of the two oldest and 

 best Horticultural Societies in America — those 

 of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. 



They were both unusually fine. It was a 

 feast, such 6is we have not had in some years, to 

 see so many new and rare fruits, flowers, and 

 vegetables, — and to meet with so many distin- 

 guished amateur and professional cultivators. 



We also visited several of the best collections 

 of fruits in the country, and have collected a 

 budget of memoranda that will be serviceable to 

 oui-selves and to the readers of the Farmer here- 

 after. Philadelphia excels in plants and flowers 

 and floral designs — Boston in fruits. Philadel- 

 phia turns out whole Green Houses of plants, 

 and immense quantities of everything. Boston 

 excludes nearly everything but Pears ; of these 

 Mr. Manning, of Salem, exhibited over 200 va- 

 rieties ; M. P. Wilder, Esq., Pres't of the So- 

 ciety, over 150; Messrs. Hovey & Co., S. 

 Walker, Esq., of Roxbury, and many others — 

 great collections. Splendid Grapes, grown un- 

 der glass, were exhibited by Messrs. Hovey & 

 Co., and others. We saw magnificent bunches 

 of Black Hamburg, Syrian, Wilmofs neio Black 

 Hamburg, White Frontignac, St. Peters, Rose 

 Chasselas, (this is a beautiful Grape,) Golden 

 do. These are the leading sorts grown. This 

 is becoming a great business at and around Bos- 

 ton — in every direction there are grape houses. 

 There is every encouragement for them — the 

 common market price, at which there is nothing 

 like a supply, is 75 cts. to #1,00 per lb. 



We hope to see grape houses erected in West- 

 ern New York and other sections soon. Other 

 people could eat fine Black Hamburgs and Mus- 

 cats as well as the Bostonians. We shall refer 

 to this matter again. 



of securing the tree against the winds and pre- 

 venting the frosts from penetrating to the roots. 

 To all who are about to plant we would say, be 

 sure to select good sorts — get good healthy trees 

 — have them carefully dug with the roots unin- 

 jured — carefully packed before taking them from 

 the nursery — and then planted in the very best 

 manner. 



Transplanting Trees. 



Autumn planting should be commenced just 

 as soon as practicable — that is, as soon as cold 

 •weather and frosts have fairly arrested vegeta- 

 tion. By early planting you gain a month or 

 more before heavy frosts set in, and trees be- 

 come firmly fixed in their new situation, and 

 in many cases will have made new roots. Plant- 

 ing at this season should be done only on dry 

 ground, where there cannot be the least appre- 

 hension of water lodging around the roots ; but 

 this caution is unnecessary, as few persons will 

 think of planting trees on wet ground till thor- 

 oughly drained. 



In our last volume (page 263) we gave a de- 

 scription and illustration of a mode of supporting 

 autumn planted trees, to which we must refer 

 those who are now about pleinting. It has been 

 found to answerj completely, the double purpose 



Horticultural Exhibition at Rochester. 



The Horticultural Society of the Valley of 

 the Genesee held its annual exhibition in Mi- 

 nerva Hall, OH the 23d ult. The display of 

 Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables was unusually 

 fine. The increased number of contributors, 

 and the great variety and superior quality of the 

 articles exhibited on this occasion, bears grati- 

 fying evidence of the zeal and rapid progress 

 that we are now making in every department of 

 Horticulture. 



The reports of Committees have not been 

 prepared until our day of publication, so that we 

 are unable to give any details. We shall do so 

 in the next number. The ladies, we are glad 

 to say, did their part well — four, we believe^ 

 exhibited 150 varieties of flowers each. 



Don't Steal that Fnii*. 



Sure, an' ye don't call it stealing to get over 

 and take a little fruit, do ye ? Yes we do, and 

 the meanest kind of stealing, too. You would'nt 

 walk into that man's house and take his money 

 from his draw, nor his bread from his table, and 

 yet very likely that money and that bread has 

 not cost its owner half so much labor, and is not 

 half so much prized and valued as his fruit. — 

 Don't steal it. Children and young people are 

 generally the trespassers on this sort of proper- 

 ty. They ought to be carefully cautioned by 

 their parents, — by their guardians, — by their 

 school-teachers, and by the whole of the older 

 parts of the community, to avoid these species 

 of transgression. Nothing is more aggravating 

 to a person who has for years spent his time and 

 his money in rearing up good fruit of any kind, 

 than to have it filched from him by any body. — 

 The theft is contemptibly mean, and yet there 

 are many who look upon it as a very trivial af- 

 fair, and as one hardly deserving the trouble of 

 a rebuke, when the whole community ought to 

 frown it down. — Maine Farmer. 



Give Credit. — Editors copying articles from 

 the Genesee Farmer will please give proper 

 credit. We almost daily find articles in our 

 exchanges, copied from this journal, without the 

 least acknowledgment. Many articles, which 

 originally appeared in the Farmer, are going the 

 rounds of the papers, credited to other journals, 

 *' A word to the wise," 



