282 Domestic Notices. 



Committee on Vegetables — Charles Hadwin, Chairman ; Gardiner Paine, 

 John C. Ripley. 



Committee of Arrangements — Daniel Waldo Lincoln, Chairman ; Wm. 

 M. Bickford, Dr. Samuel Flagg, Charles Paine, David S. Messenger, 

 George Jaques, John Gray, Jr. 



The folloAving votes were passed at the same meeting of the trustees : — 



Voted — To have an Exhibition, to continue three days, commencing on 

 Wednesday preceding the Fourth of July. 



Voted — To have an Exhibition, to continue three days, during " Cattle 

 Show Week." 



The society is in a very prosperous condition. They have purchased a 

 beautiful lot, and will probably erect a large and commodious Hall upon it 

 next year. It is a thing devoutly to be prayed for, that our next Legislature 

 may be endowed with such an enlargement of the understanding, as to per- 

 ceive it to be their duty to afford some pecuniary assistance to these most 

 useful institutions — the Horticultural Societies ! Are they not already more 

 useful and more important than the Agricultural Societies ? We think that 

 they are; — ^to add one word more — We know that they are. — Yours, J. 

 Worcester, May, 1850. 



American Pears on the Quince Stock. — Your remark respecting 

 tiie growth of American varieties of the pear upon the quince, has led me to 

 make some inquiries and to institute some experiments, of which you shall 

 be duly informed, whenever I get far enough to report progress. In the 

 mean time, I simply add that I have seen the Buffum upon quince — one year 

 from tlie bud — five and six feet growth, equalling even tlie Glout Morceau 

 in that respect. How it will continue to grow, I am taking measures to 

 satisfy myself fully. 



By the way, how little we hear or see of that capital market pear, the 

 Doyenne d' Hiver or Coffin's Virgalieu. Indeed, the only notice of it that I 

 have any were met with is on the 457th page of tlie third volume of the Hor- 

 ticulturist, by Mr. Manning. I have, or rather, I recently had, till very 

 lately die sacra fames auri prevailed over my better judgment, — a tree of 

 this variety, some forty or more years old, a great and constant bearer ; the 

 fruit always fair and handsome ; the tree upright and graceful in its form ; 

 and both the fruit, (except that it is larger and later,) and tlie tree so closely 

 resembling the old Doyenne Blanc, that I make no doubt of its being a 

 seedling or hybrid offspring of tlie venerable old St. Michael. 



The flavor of the fruit is but little below first rate, certainly better than 

 that of many classed as second rate. Notwithstanding, in every other res- 

 pect, the tree and its fruit belong near the top of the list of pears, denomi- 

 nated "Best." It is very fine for cooking and for preserves. — Yours, J. 

 Worcester, May, 1850. 



[We are glad to learn that our correspondent is about assisting in the 

 desirable task of ascertaining all those varieties Avhich will succeed upon 

 the quince ; and we shall look for the results of his experiments from time to 

 time, which cannot but add much to the limited stock of information which 

 we now possess on the subject. It may be as well to remark, however, that 



