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Horticulturists visiting Boston, — and all horticulturists ought to visit 

 Boston, — should call at once at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Hall, 

 on the corner of Tremont and Bromfield Streets. In the Library Room, which 

 is open during business hours eve)'y day, they will find one of the best collections 

 of horticultural books in the world, free to their examination, and in Mr. Bus- 

 well, who is Treasurer, Librarian, Superintendent, Corresponding Secretary, and 

 housekeeper generally to the Society, we can assure all who do not already know 

 him, they will find a most courteous and obliging gentleman, ready to give them 

 any information or do them any service in his power. We say this, because we 

 have known of gentlemen interested in horticulture who have derived far less of 

 pleasure and profit from a visit to Boston than if they had on their arrival put 

 themselves in communication with some one who could advise them how to 

 make the m'ost of their time. Of course we shall always be glad to see our 

 friends, among whom we count all the readers of the Journal, and all other horti- 

 culturists (they all ought to be readers of the Journal), at our ofiice, — indeed, 

 they can visit both places very easily, as they are not far apart. 



A free horticultural exhibition is held in the hall every Saturday, from the first 

 of June until the annual show in September, excepting the Saturdays preceding 

 and following the rose show on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 20th and 21st of 

 June. At these weekly shows one is sure to see specimens of the newest and best 

 varieties of fruits, flowers, and vegetables grown by the best cultivators. In- 

 deed, there is hardly a Saturday through the year, even though the hall is not 

 opened for a formal exhibition, but something wortliy of attention is brought 

 into the library room. 



It is the desire of the Society that all the facilities for the study of horticulture 

 afforded by its rooms should be made as widely useful as possible, and therefore 

 it would be pleased to have this invitation circulated by its friends, and especially 

 by such horticultural editors as may be disposed to notice it. 



Evergreens. — At the April meeting of the Warsaw, Illinois, Horticultural 

 Society, the President recommended for general cultivation for shelter and orna- 

 ment the Norway Spruce, White, Scotch, and Austrian Pines, Balsam Fir, and 

 Hemlock. For shelter belts nothing equals the Norway spruce. The Hemlock, 

 which he considers (as we do) the most beautiful of all evergreens, and has found, 

 contrary to the general impression, not more difficult to transplant than other 

 evergreens, seems to fall a victim to severe droughts and variable winters oftener 

 than others. A gentleman who has had much experience in the cultivation of 

 evergreens in Eastern Massachusetts, lately remarked to us that he had found 

 the hemlock would not stand in exposed situations as well as other kinds. 



Healthfulness of Apples. — An eminent French physician thinks that 

 the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious aff'ections in Paris is owing to the increased 

 consumption of ajjples, which fruit he maintains is an admirable prophylactic 

 and tonic as well as a very nourishing and easily digested article of food. The 

 Parisians devour one hundred millions of apples every winter, that is, they did 

 before the war. Ho7ne and Health. 



