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The above Figs, Grapes, and Wines, entered for medals, to be the property 

 of the society, for the use of members residing in those localities where they are 

 not grown. 



It is also expected that other premiums will be added to the above list. 



Persons desirous of becoming members can remit the admission fee to Thomas 

 P. James, Treasurer, Philadelphia, who will furnish them with the transactions 

 of the society. Life membership, ten dollars ; biennial, two dollars. 



Influence of the Graft on the Stock. — We saw a short time ago at 

 the Cambridge Botanic Garden an instance of the influence of the graft on the 

 stock mentioned in our June number. A but Hon Thoinpsoni had been grafted on 

 a green-leaved stock, and the stock had sent out far below the graft a shoot with 

 the leaves variegated like A. Thovipsoni. 



An Anonymous Note, criticising some of the prize regulations and the com- 

 position of the committees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, has been 

 received at the office of the Journal. If the writer will send us his name we will 

 consider the propriety of complying with his request ; until then we cannot. 



The Girdled Peach Orchard. — Our readers will doubtless recollect that 

 the Martin Green peach orchard, at Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been girdled 

 five times, but the damage has been repaired with the help of the neighbors. 

 This year the operation has been repeated, and we learn from the Jackson 

 (Mich.) Patriot that the operator has been caught and safely lodged in jail. He 

 was employed in a bakery in St. Joseph, and his name is William Cornell. He 

 had loaned Green $1500 some years ago; Green failed, and Cornell lost his 

 money — the savings of a lifetime of hard labor. He fancied the sale of the 

 orchard by Green to Martin G. Hunter was a bogus transaction, and sought 

 revenge by girdling Hunter's trees, planted by Green. 



Tobacco for Squash Bugs and Cherry Trees. — Mr. J. P. Whiting, 

 of Detroit, raised some squashes and cucumbers last year in his cherry orchard, 

 and used tobacco-dust plentifully on the vines tg banish the squash bug, striped 

 bug, etc. The insects were destroyed, and so were the cherry trees ; not one of 

 the latter is now alive. Western Rural. 



Tree-planting in Nebraska. — According to the Blair Register, tree 

 planting in Nebraska is prosecuted at a lively rate. One day sixteen thousand 

 young trees passed through that town to farmers farther west. A company of 

 Swedes had contracted for twelve thousand cottonwoods to set out on their 

 farms. This tree planting is now a regular routine of agricultural settlement, 

 and cannot fail to produce the most beneficial effect upon the climate and pro- 

 ductive power of tliat young state. 



Gum Trees. — J. T. Stratton, in addition to his seventy acres of gum trees, 

 has this year set out sixty-five acres more, between the San Ramon and Castro 

 Valley roads. This is the largest gum tree farm in the state. Pacific Rural. 



