188 Editorial Miscellany. 



wool round the stick and stem ; they will not attempt to pass 

 over it, as it entangles them. 



These directions apply equally as well to Pinks, with the excep- 

 tion that the bloom from which the pollen is to be taken must be 

 opened before it begins to expand, or the apices will all be burst, 

 and the pollen gone. 

 ( Florista. 



The Fourth Annual Meeting of the United States Agricultural 

 Society will be held at Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, Janu- 

 ary 9th, 1856. 



Business of importance will come before the meeting. Reports 

 from its officers will be submitted, and a new election be made, in 

 which it is desirable that eveiy State and territory should be re- 

 presented. 



Lectures and interesting discussions are expected on subjects 

 pertaining to the objects of the association, by distinguished 

 scientific and practical agriculturists. The transactions of 1855, 

 containing a full account of the late exhibition at Boston, will be 

 distributed to such members as are present. 



The various agricultural societies of the country are respect- 

 fully requested to send delegates to this meeting ; and all gentle - 

 men who are interested in the welfare of American agriculture, 

 who would promote a more cordial spirit of intercourse between 

 the different sections of our land, and who would elevate this 

 most important pursuit to a position of greater usefulness and 

 honor, are also invited to be present on this occasion. 



Marshall P. Wilder, President. 



W. S. King, Secretary. 



December, 1855. 



For the N Y Horticultural Review. 

 Reply to Evelyn. — We would say to our venerable critic, who 

 comes to us under the name of Evelyn, that, in writing our article 

 upon the cultivation of the Grape, we wished to treat exclusively up- 

 on the cultivation of native varieties. We knew of Mr. Cummings 

 and his plantations of foreign Grapes. But we have ever deprecated 

 the cultivation of foreign Grapes in this country. In our article, in 



