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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



SEPT. 28. 1S.10. 



BOSTON. WEDNKSIMV F,VEMN(i, SEPT. 28, 1836. 



HORTICULTURAL. AJSNIVKRSARY. 



The Eighth Anniver:=ary Exliibilion nf the Massachu- 

 eetls Horticultural Society was holden on Saturday the 

 2'lth inst, at the Artists' Gallery, in Summer street, Bos 

 ton. The display of FrMils, Flowers, and other precious 

 products of iin[)roved culture was fine, but the collec- 

 tion not so large as has been offeied at some of the pre- 

 vious annual shows of the Society. But if zn quantity 

 the collection fell short, in quali'y^ we think, it has nev- 

 er been o.xceeded. We hope to receive official accounts 

 of the articles exhibited in season for this f)aper. 



At 12 M Ezra Weston, Jr., Esq gave a very pleas 

 ing and pertinent Address to a respectable and gratified 

 audience. In this he gave a concise ac<:ount of the im- 

 provemen's in the culture of fruits by Professor Van 

 Mons, together with some interesting traits of his char- 

 acter, pursuits, i&c. We would attempt sUetches of this 

 valuable and judicious discourse, did we not hope soon 

 to present the whole to our readers. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL, SOCIETY. 



Saturday, Sept. S4, )8a6. 

 The Annual exhibtion ofthe Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society took place on Saturday, 24th inst, and the 

 place selected ?^^c the day and the occasion was the Ar- 

 tists' Gallery, a spacious hall situated in Summer street. 

 The exhibition of Fruits and of Flowers, &c. consider- 

 ing the many new and rare varieties, and splendid spe- 

 cimens, which we were this day shewn, fully sustained 

 the character which it has continued to acquire duiing 

 the former years. 



EXHIBITION OF FHUIT9. 



Fruits were sent for the Exhibition by the following 

 gentlemen. 



By Mr Cowan, from the Conservatory of Col. Perkins 

 in Brookline — beauiit^ul specunens of Brooinfield Nec- 

 tarines, Murray's do. — Peaches, Noblesse and New Roy- 

 al George. — Grapes, Black Hamburg, St Peters, Frarjk- 

 endale, Black Frontlgnac, Grizzly do , White Syrian or 

 Hamburg, White Chasselas, White Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria, all remarkably fine and beautiful. 



By Jacob Tidd of Roxbury — Grizzly Tukay, a bunch 

 weighing 1 lb. 5 oz. and 4 clusters of Black Hamburg 

 which respectively weighed 2 lb. 1 oz., ] lb. 15 oz., 1 lb. 

 13 oz., -ind 1 lb. 10 oz. Also one very exiraordinary 

 bunch of Rogner do Nice Grapes, which weighed G lb. 

 5 oz. and five others, which respectively weighed 4 lb- 

 13 oz., 3 lb 7 oz., 3 lb., 2 lb. 8 oz., and 2 lb. 



By Mr Ila<jgcrston, from Belmont and the splendid 

 Conservatory of J. P. Curbing, Esq. — some very extra 

 ordinary specimens of William's Bon Chretien Pears 

 and a lar^re basket of various fine kinds of Grapes, or 

 very handsome appearance and finely decorated — also 

 a large Pot ctmlaining .\ living vine coiled and loaded 

 with fine ri|'e dusters ofthe Black Hamburg, the whole 

 beautifully decorated with flowers. 



By Mr Halhorn of Salem — Pe; rs, name unknown* 

 large and very sweet. 



By Gi n. Josiah Newhall, of Lynnfield — Porter ap- 

 ples, also fine specimens of the favorite and beautiful 

 fruit described in the Pomological Magazine as the Ciipi- 

 uumont. and sent hither by Mr Knight under the same 

 name, but now satisfactorily ascertained to be the Kui de 

 Wurteiiiberg — Another pear large and very oblong 

 wiihout name, butto appearance the Bourgmestre or the 

 kind heretofore so called with u^. 



Hy B.V. French, from his estate in Braintree — Pears, 



n.tine un; nown, also vaiietiis of Apples, including 

 Dutch Codlin, Monstrous Bellflower, Gravenstein and 

 Ruggles, and anoihera native fruit, large, red and hand- 

 some, austere In taste, but fine for cooking, a great bear- 

 er. Also a fruit received by him as the Mela Carla. 



By Jonathan Warren of Weston — Warren's Seed- 

 ling apples, a fruit raised by him, small, red, of fine fla- 

 vor and a great bearer. Another called the " American 

 J\'onpnrieI,*' a new large red beautiful fruit, the size, 

 shape and color of a large Baldwin, and now ripe, v*'ry 

 tender, of a fine pleasant acid flavor. This fruit which 

 is highly deserving, and a great beirer, originated on the 

 farm of the Rev. Dr. Puffer of Berlin, Mass. aud the 

 tree first bore fruit in 182S. Also specimens of the Por- 

 ter 



By Dennis Murphy, from his garden in Roxb ury — 

 Chelmsford Pears, otherwise called Mogul Summer. 



By E. Vose, President ofthe Society — Pears, the 

 Barilett or William's Bon Chretien, Roi de Wertemb'irg 

 (Capianmont.'') Napoleon, Lewis, Vert Longue or Mou- 

 ille Bouihe, Andrews Urbaniste. Peaches, Grosse 

 Mignonne. 



By Enoch Barllett, Vice President of the Society — 

 Pears, Capiaumont as heretofore ,so called, Andrews 

 Gushing. Sylvanche Veste, Culoite de Swiss, Seckel 

 Johonneo, Marie Louise, Napoleon; — Apples, Haw- 

 ihorndeen, Porter, a very large variety, of a green color 

 called ihe Mogul. 



By George Newhall of Dorchester — Porter Apples, 

 2 Baskets. 



By Mr Mannin;; — about 70 varieties of Pears as fol - 

 lows — Autumn Superb, Belle Lucrative, Belle et Bon- 

 ne, Beurre Diel and Colmar Souverair. the last two 

 kinds Mr M. is confident are identical, the last name is 

 not we believe found on the lists of Flanders ; Easter 

 Beurre <ir Pentecoie, Bezi Vaei, Black Pear ofVVorces- 

 ter or Iron Pear, Bleeckers Meadow, William's Bonche- 

 tien, Buffuin, Capiaumont of Pom Mag. or Wurtemberg, 

 Catlil!ac, Bezi de Chaumontelle, Cushing, Delues D'- 

 Hardenpont, Doyenne Gris, Doyenne Blanc or St Mi- 

 chael, Ecliassery, (jloat Morc^au, Sucre Vert, Sylvan- 

 che Verte, Henry IV, Jalou^ie, Louise Bonne, Marie 

 Louise, Napoleon, Verte Longue, Naumkeag, Newtown, 

 Vi-galieu, OrangH d'hiver. Passe C linar. Popes Quaker, 

 Princess D'Orange, Raymond, Rouselct de Rhiems, St. 

 Ghislain, Verte Longue Panache, Summer Thorn, Sty- 

 rian, Washington, Wilkinson, Bowdoirs, Winter Nelis 

 or La Bonne, Malinoise, Beurre de BollwiUer, Beurre 

 Bosc, Fulton, Colmar Sabine, Sabine of the French, 

 Figue de Naples, Remseus, Green Pear of Yair, Thom- 

 sons (American,) Beurre Von Marum, Hollandgreen, 

 Gansel's Bergamotte, Capsheaf, Coffin's Vergalieu, 

 Saunders Beurre — also some unnamed kinds. 



The above kinds of fruit are of the different seasins, 

 of course but (ew were now in eating, and are therefore 

 for reexamination at some future day. 



The Apples exhibited by Mr Manning were the King 

 of the Pippins, Fall Harvey,, and Rambour Gros Oi 

 Franc. 



By VVm. O.iver, from his estate in Dorchester — Pears 

 Brocas Ber:;amolte, Swans Egg, St. Chislain, Harvard 

 aud Seckel. 



By J. A. Kenrick — Pears, Seckle. Harvard, Andrews. 



— Apples, Hubbardston Nonsuch, ilempslock and a laigc 

 handsome fruit without name. 



By Mr Sweetser, from his Garden at Cambridgeport 



— Large specimens of the Chelmsford Pear called the 

 Mogul Summer. 



By Col. Wilder — Pears, Bartlttt or Willinms Bon 

 Chretien, and fair specimens of the Roxbury Russcting 

 of the growth of 1835. 



By Joshua Gardner, of Dorchester — Seckle Pears, 

 Gravenstein Apples, very fine, Monstrous Pippin, and 

 a native sweet apple 



)'y Gardner Brewer — Roi de Wurtemberg, also Prin- 

 ces Imperial Gage Plums from a tree transplanted from 

 the Nursery last spring. 



By William Kenrick— Beurre de BoUwiller Pears, 



&.C. 



By John Woodbury — Golden Chasselas Grapes. 



By J. L. L. F. Warren of Brighton — Porter Apples, 

 Sweet water Grapes orChas.selas from out of door cul- 

 ture, also a Winter Squash, the growth of 1835. 



By E Breed of Charlestuwn — a very large Valparai- 

 so Squash of the oval form, also another variety very 

 large, flat, and ribbed at its sides. 



y. By Mr McLellan — A green fleshed Persian Musk 

 Melon — also a Minorca fliuskmelon, both from Oak 

 Wood, the mansion of Wm. Pratt, Esq, in Waiertown. 



By Thomas Mason of the Charlestown Vineyard- 

 Sweet Water Grapes, Black Hamburg, and St. Peters. 



By S. R. Johnson ofCharlestown — Sweetwater Grapes 

 the produce of out of door culture, Black Hamburg, and 

 White Frontignacor Muscat. 



Duiing the present unusually cold summer, the trees 

 of the Peach and the Cherry have not borne their wont- 

 ed and abundant supplies ol fruit; the blossoms having 

 been di stroyed by the last uncommon winter. Yet tho' 

 thus cut off' from our usual supplies, we have the loss 

 reason to complain, inasmuch as but few of the trees 

 which produce those fruits have been destroyed ; and 

 compared with manyother sections of ourcountry, even 

 in more southern parallels of latitude, the climate ofthe 

 country ar 'und Boston seems indeed highly favored. The 

 climate ofthe extensive plains, and vallies bordering on 

 the great Northern arteiies, or rivers of our country, 

 seems in some degree very unfavorable. The cold aque- 

 ous vapor, which is so copiously exhaled from these riv- 

 ers by day, descending by night on the hills, rolls down- 

 ward^ by its superior density and gravity, resting and 

 condensing on all the low plains and vallies, thus render- 

 ing Ihem doubly exposed to the destructive frosts of 

 winter and of summer. Moreover the winds, which, un- 

 obstructed, follow almost invariably the longitudinal 

 course ofthe vallies of these rivers bring down alternate- 

 ly from other climes, a degree of cold during winter, the 

 most intense and destructive. On the best authority we 

 are assured, that the Pear, and particularly the Peach, and 

 the Cherry, have during the last winters suffered partial 

 destruction in the valley ofthe Connecticut as far south 

 as the country around the city of Hartford, and even 

 still further downwards and towards the sea. Even far 

 below the city of Albany, on the Hudson or North Riv- 

 er, the Cherry tree particularly, and many other trees 

 which are equally as hardy and especially during all the 

 period of their younger years, are, a» we are credibly as- 

 sured, extremely liable to suff"er death during winter 

 from the same destructive climate and causes. The fine 

 exhibilion offru ts, and the splendid varieties of flowers 

 and of other productions, which was witnessed this day, 

 affords new evidence that we have abundant cause of 

 gratitude. 



For the Committee. 



WILLIAM KENRICK. 



The Report on Flowers came too late for this week's 

 insertion. 



The Plymouth County Agricultural Society will hold 

 their Anuual Exhihitiim in Bridgewater, on ihe ]2th of 

 October next. Rev. Mr Carll, of North Bridgewater, 



ill deliver the address. 



At Worcester, on Wednesday the 5th of October. 



