246 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE 



The Balsam fir is one of the most hardy of American trees, 

 bearing exposure with impunity in the most bleak situations. 

 It is therefore well adapted for planting as a protection to 

 other plantations that would otherwise be exposed to the 

 winds. It bears transplantation well, and has unfortunately 

 on this account been extensively employed as an ornamental 

 tree in our New England villages. The wood is of but very 

 little value, and it is surprising that this tree should ever have 

 been taken from the woods. 



Siissitt|usctts IJortitultural ^mhi 



Saturday, Feb. 2d, 185G. An adjourned meeting of the Society was held 

 to-day — Vice President Richards in the chair. 



Mr. Walker, in behalf of the committee to draft appropriate resolutions 

 on the death of the Rev. Jno. O. Choules, an honorary member, offered a 

 preamble and resolutions which were accepted, and entered upon the 

 records. 



Voted, that the Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Society be 

 held in the third week in September, commencing on the IGth and to re- 

 main open at the discretion of the Committee of Arrangements. Adjourned 

 four weeks to March 1. 



March I. An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. 



No business of importance was transacted and the meeting adjourned 

 five weeks to April 5th. 



^pril 5th. An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. 



Seeds were received from Mr. George Mountfort, consul at Candia; among 

 them a tree strawberry, said to be peculiar to that island. The thanks of 

 the Society were voted to Mr. Mountfort, and the Corresponding Secretary 

 requested to forward a copy of the vote. 



Adjourned four weeks to the first Saturday in May. 



DortitulturctI ©ptnttious 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



April has been a very pleasant month, with but few rainy days, and free 

 from heavy frosts. Cool easterly winds have prevailed, which has retarded 

 vegetation, or rather prevented too early a development of the buds of fruit 

 trees, &-c. But for such weather it might have been forced on so rapidly as to 



