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flavor and beauty ; the latter not yet liiDe, but large and hand- 

 some. He has cultivated them about fifteen years, and they are 

 never disturbed by insects or disease. Councellor Nash, of this 

 city, originally of a dilferent section of Massachusetts, from Dr. 

 Wellington, fully confirmed all the latter stated, as respects the 

 soil and climate of the old Bay State, for producing fine apples of 

 every variety, as well as many other fruits, and the great im- 

 provements its people had made in the cultivation of these. Much 

 valuable information has been elicited in the subject, by the free 

 interchange of remarks and pertinent questions asked by these 

 gentlemen, the one of the other. 



Mr. Nash — Our native grape vines are as plenty as grass, and 

 many are fine in their chosen localities, but it is impossible to 

 make plants flourish out of their proper position and latitude ; their 

 natural climates. Apples love high lands, cool mountain breezes, 

 clean air ; and they never fail to show it in their fair, full, smooth 

 and lovely apples ; and they love the northern slopes of our 

 northern high lands. It has been found that when the apple 

 trees on the southern slopes have been almost destroyed, those or- 

 chards on the northern slopes have not lost a half dozen. 



Prof. Mapes, absent at the State Fair, ordered to be laid on the 

 table specimens of the native lupin of California, timothy grass 

 and barley. The lupin is small, the timothy large and coarse ; 

 the barley ear provided with remarkable spines. 



Jared L. Moor, absent at the State Fair, ordered on the table 

 three flower roots, sent by a correspendent from California, who 

 says of them as follows : . 



SA^f Francisco, July 15th, 1852. 



Jarku L. Moore, Esq., New- York: 



My Dear Friend — I take the liberty to send to you, by the 

 kindness of Wm. G. Wood, E«q., three bulbous roots, for the 

 American Institute, to try the experiment of their growing at the 

 north, wliich please present with my compliments. They were 

 presented to me yesterday, by Dr. L. Hubbard and my late law 

 partner, L. D. Brown, Esq., who procured them on the coast range 

 of the Trinity mountains, some 500 miles north of this place, in 



