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American Pomological Society. — The prospect for a full attendance and 

 an interesting meeting at Richmond, in September, is most encouraging. The 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society has appointed more than forty of its most 

 active members as delegates. 



The following communication concerning exhibitions of trees, etc., at tlie meet- 

 ings of the Pomological Society, has been sent us, with a request for its publica- 

 tion. If we had written it we should have made some of the express'ons a little 

 different ; and we do not know whether any other person than the writer of this 

 note has felt aggrieved by the practice mentioned, but the possibility that it may 

 prevent any such inequality, is a sufficient reason for its publication. 



" To THE Hon. Marshall P. Wilder and Executive Com. Am. Pom. See. 



" Gentlemen : I respectfully submit to your esteemed consideration the 

 propriety of some definite understanding and positive rules touching the subject 

 of the exhibition for commercial purposes of trees, seedlings, and plants, at the 

 meetings of your society. 



" A sense of equity would seem to demand that either all members of the as- 

 sociation should be allowed to place on exhibition, in the rooms of the society, 

 their various salable products in the way of plants, trees, seedlings, etc., or that 

 all should be rigidly excluded from this truly valuable and cheap advertising 

 privilege. 



"To allow a few ' brassy ' and ' cheeky ' individuals to parade and placard 

 their trees, etc., against the known wishes of the society, and thus monopolize 

 the thing, seems hardly fair to the balance of the 'craft,' whose self-respect will 

 not allow them to sneak in their wares. I am a nurseryman, ready for any hon- 

 orable enterprise ; would like to exhibit my stock at such a gathering as the last 

 in Philadelphia ; am willing to pay for the privilege, believing, as a business en- 

 terprise, it would pay. Candor compels me to say, however, that it is hardly fair 

 and honest to pick a handful of trees out of a hundred acres or more of trees, 

 and show them as a sample of the quality of one's productions. 



"Your official answer through these pages will, I know, be thankfully received 

 by the fraternity. Ntirserynianr 



Lima Beans in California. — Captain Jonathan Mayhew, of Santa Clara 

 Valley, has a field of one hundred acres in Lima beans. The crop is in a very 

 promising condition. The beans sell at about three and one half cents per pound, 

 when the common white beans bring two and a half cents, and are said to be no 

 more trouble to cultivate or to market. 



The Early Rose Potato is recommended by a writer in The Plantation, 

 published at Atlanta, Ga., as a great acquisition to southern farming. From its 

 earliness, two crops can be produced the same season, thus overcoming the diffi- 

 culty in the culture of the Irish potato in the South, of keeping good seed through 

 the winter. The second crop is planted about the fifteenth of July. 



To DRIVE away Rats. — A writer in the Germantown Telegraph says that 

 to keep a goat is a sure way of driving rats from the premises. 



