no Notes and Gleanings. 



to horticulture. A committee was appointed for the selection of a topic for each 

 month's discussions, to be printed and forwarded to each horticultural and agri- 

 cultural society in the State, with the request that they will each discuss the 

 sajne, and have a report of such discussion sent to the secretary of the commit- 

 tee, who shall condense and collate the same into a general report, to be pub- 

 lished in the agricultural and other papers of the State; 



The ad-interiin reports and other transactions of the society will shortly be 

 published in pamphlet-form as usual. The officers elected for the ensuing year 

 are, — President, J. A. Warder, Cincinnati. Vice-president, G. W. Campbell, 

 Delaware. Secretary and treasurer, M. B. Bateham, Painesville. Ad-interim 

 committee, N. Ohmer, Dayton ; D. C. Richmond, Sandusky ; Jesse Storrs, 

 Painesville ; W. E. Mears, Milford. 



Grape-Houses. — In a number of grape-liouses which have l^een under my 

 care and observation for sixteen years and upwards, an unusual number of vines 

 died during the winter of 1868. Had the roots been killed, I should ha\t con- 

 cluded that the borders had not been properly covered. Upon investigation, I 

 find that where the houses have been opened, and air admitted freely on sunny 

 days, no vines have died ; that, where some little ventilation has been used, some 

 few have ; while, in those which have been entirely closed, one-half, and in some 

 instances a greater portion, have died down to the sills. I do not pretend to 

 know the actual cause of failure, but have thought it might be want of air. 



Will you or some of your correspondents give their experience, and, if they 

 have come to a different conclusion, state it through your columns "i 



West Roxbury, Mass., 1S6S. Robert Watt. 



[Will some of our friends who have been unlucky enough to lose vines let 

 us know how their experience agrees with that of Mr. Watt .' — Ed.^ 



No Fear of "too much Fruit." — Some indolent farmers assign as a 

 reason for not planting orchards, that there will soon be "too much fruit," so 

 that there will be no demand for it. We heard the same sentiments uttered fif- 

 teen years ago ; and yet there is no appearance of " too much fruit," but there 

 is evidently not enough of this luxury in any locality. For several years, fruit- 

 growers have been amply rewarded in their outlay ; and the demand, instead of 

 diminishing, is annually increasing. Every farmer who has not an orchard 

 should prepare to plant one. The soil for fruit-trees should be naturally or 

 artificially drained and deepened with the subsoil-plough. A great many per- 

 sons are prevented from planting fruit-trees by not having the soil ready for them 

 in proper time. It is never too soon to commence draining and deepening 

 the soil for an orchard, or for any thing else. — Western Rural. 



[We think it is about time to hear the last of the " too-much-fruit " bugbear; 

 at least, in the vicinity of Boston. We are not likely here to see the day when 

 good fruit, and sound, healthy vegetables, will be drugs in the market. 



When tomatoes are from four to eleven dollars a bushel, and Williams apples 

 six dollars per bushel, — not barrel, — it is rather astonishing to be told that too 

 much fruit is planted. — Ed^ 



