Edi/oriol Miscellany. 311 



Cincinnati Horticulturai, Society. — At a late meeting of the Cin- 

 cinnati Horticultural Society, the subjoined discussion, relating to 

 the effects of the recent cold weather on fruit trees, transpired : 



Mr. Buchanan requested the members to state their observa- 

 tions respecting- the effects of the frost upon fruit trees, and par- 

 ticularly the fruit buds. He found the peach buds and those of 

 the finer cherries were killed ; those of the apples, the grapes, the 

 hardier pears, and cherries are still safe. 



Mr. Kelly thought the examination premature ; some of the 

 young shoots are destroyed ; this was true of peaches, cherries, 

 and pears, tliat had made a late growth in the fall. As heretofore 

 remarked by him, the Mazzard cherry had suffered more than some 

 of the finer kinds. 



Mr. R. W. Reilly reports all the Morellos safe. Napoleon, the 

 Spanish, the Dukes, and other finest varieties are killed, not only 

 the buds but the fruit spurs ; also, the finer pears have their spurs 

 killed, and the blackness often descends to the main branch. 

 Some early apples appear killed ; the late ones look well. The 

 peaches are evidently killed. His trees, five years old, he thinks 

 are not killed. 



Mr. Sayers finds some of the young growth of pears looking 

 badly ; but in 1853, the same appearances were followed with no 

 bad results. No peaches . except a few buds, perhaps one 

 per cent., on low branches near the ground. Cherries appear to 

 be all dead. Fruit spurs look badly ; but believes they will 

 recover. 



Mr. F. Ct. Carey has liot examined sufficiently, but believes the 

 cherries are all killed ; a few, perhaps, will survive on the early 

 May. Plums are not injured. Peaches are killed now ; some of 

 the trees appear to be injured. He apprehended that we should 

 see the effects of the frost during the next season in various 

 blights. 



Mr. Kelly i-eminded us that four years ago we had the same ap- 

 pearances, and where the shoots were used for grafts they 

 failed ; but where left on the tree they recovered entirely. He 

 thought this discussion altogether premature, except, as had been 

 suggested, by way of showing our powers of guessing ; we must 

 wait until the trees begin to grow in the spring. 

 Mr. John K. Greene said that Mr. Davis, of Clermont County, 



