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productive fruit, and I think highly deserving to be domesticated, and im- 

 proved in flavor and vast size. — Truly yours, W. Kenrick. Feb., 1850. 



New Hardy Evergreen Trees. — I take great interest in your descrip- 

 tion of pines, very great; and much desire to sec them introduced, — all 

 such as will bear our climate. The following, from what you have stated, 

 will, I suspect, prove hardy in lat. 42° here. Cedrus Deodara. — Funebral 

 Cypress ; Pinus Strobus nivea ; Pinus cxcelsa ; A'bies SmitluVma ; Thuya 

 filiformis. As to the Japan cedar, (Cryptomeria,) and the whole tribe 

 from New Mexico and California, I have doubts of them all ; except only 

 such of them as the Douglasi, which may also be found as high up on that 

 coast as the lat. of 53°. The province where Mr. Fortune found the Japan 

 cedar was Chusan, I think, and the Nankin cotton and tea district, but the 

 funebral cypress was in cold mountainous districts, full 200 miles north, pro- 

 vince of Tlie-hol, " neai the Toiver of the Thundering Winds.^'' What is the 

 Juniperus pendula ? It is said to be beautiful. Have you the New Ever- 

 green Larch, which originated late in England. Thus, tliere are probably 

 six varieties, (as you will suppose, all hardy,) to add to our beautiful Norway 

 spruce, three of which, at least, are splendid weeping trees, which we want, 

 namely, Deodtira, T. filiformis, and funebral cypress. — Yours, W. Kenrick, 

 JVonantum Hill, JVewton, Mass., Feb., 1850. 



The Season in Pennsylvania. — Our peaches are all killed in the low 

 grounds. On the 15th of January last, the thermometer, in the morning, was 

 down to 8° below zero, — the only cold morning that we have had all winter, 

 and the only time the mercury descended below zero ; generally, the 

 weather was mild. The 14th instant, the thermometer stood at 73° at noon, 

 and ranging from about 30°, in the morning, to 50° and 60°, at noon, all 

 through the present month. We had considerable snow during December, 

 — not much in January, — but a great deal of rain ; not much snow in Feb- 

 ruary, — much rain ; in March considerable rain, and much open and pleasant 

 weather ; tlie ground in fine order for farming operations. Yesterday, I 

 sowed my oats, — to day it is snowing in real earnest ; thermometer 32°, — 

 snow now, — 8 o'clock. P., M. three inches deep, and may be much deeper, 

 as it still continues. Vegetation has made a start ; grain fields never had a 

 more promising appearance, at this season of the year, then at present, yet, 

 the prospect to farmers is not encouraging ; the productions of the farm, as 

 grain and cattle, are at this time very low, and scarcely any demand, while 

 the expenses of farmers, such as repairs, taxes, labor, and various other out- 

 lays are as high as ever before. Yours, Sfc, J. B. G., Columbia, Pa., March 

 23d., 1850. 



Art. III. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, February 23, 1850. An adjourned meeting of the Society was 

 held to-day. The President in the chair. 



The chairman of the committee on Flowers reported that lie had put up 



