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The animal carbon will also be a substitute for the ammoniacal extract 

 of peat, which may be omitted. Urine made into a paste with calcined 

 gypsum, may be substituted for the carbonate and muriate of ammonia. 

 It is indifferent whether we use nitrates of soda or potash. The common 

 crude saltpetre Avill answer perfectly well, where it can be obtained 

 cheaper than nitrate of soda. Common bog manganese answers for the 

 oxide of manganese and bog iron. 



It will be easy for any one familiar with chemistry, to make many vari- 

 eties of the above combinations within the rules, but those who do not 

 understand the science, will do well to follow the formula strictly, if they 

 wish to test the value of the manure. — fjV. E. Farmer.) 



Art. II. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Fth. 3d, 1844. An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

 held to-day, — the President in the Chair. 



Mr. Vose's letter declining lo serve on the building committee was ac- 

 cepted, and Capt. F. W. Macondray chosen in Mr. Vose's place. 



Dr. A. B. Wheeler was admitted a subscription member. Adjourned 

 three weeks to March 2d. 



March 2d. An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the Chair. 



A report was read from Professor Russell, upon the seeds received 

 from Prof. Fischer, of the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, which weis 

 accepted, and voted to be published in the transactions of the Society. 



A letter was received from A. H. Ernst, corresponding member, Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, describing two varieties of apples. 



It was voted, that the sum of thirty-eight dollars be appropriated to the 

 Fruit Committee, for the purpose of awarding gratutities for 1843, 

 agreeably to the report of the Fruit Committee. 



On motion of C. M. Hovey, the following Resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That the Society have learned, with feelings of painful re- 

 gret, the death of their late honorary member, John Claudius Loudon, 

 Esq., of London, and that, sensible of the important services he has ren- 

 dered to the science of Horticulture and Rural Improvement generally, 

 in the publication and dissemination of the many valuable and instructive 

 works, of which he was the author, as well as the conductor of the late 

 Gardener'^s Magazine, — they would respectfully tender the sympathies and 

 condolence of its members to the family of Mr. Loudon, in their deep 

 affliction and bereavement. 



It was also voted, that the Corresponding Secretary be requested to 

 transmit a copy of the above to the family of Mr. Loudon. Adjourned 

 one week to March 9th. 



Exhibited — Fruit : From A. H. Ernst, fine specimens of an apple, called 

 the Detroit, and also a seedling called the Cannahan; both handsome 

 and crood, the former much resembling the Bellflower, with which it may 

 prove synonymous. We have drawings of both these varieties, and in our 

 next number shall publish Mr. Ernst's communication to the Society, and 

 give an engraving of the Cannahan. From the President of the Society, 

 Princes' St? Germain and Catillac pears, both handsome, and the former 

 in excellent preservation. From Capt. Macondray, pears without name. 



