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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 



ing to the season of their Flowering. By E. W. 

 Hervey." Such a publication will lead to a better 

 knowledge of the indigenous and beautiful plants 

 that grow about us. We shall find it quite useful 

 in our labors. The author will please accept our 

 thanks for the copy. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The eighth session of this institution will be 

 held in the city of Philadelphia, commencing on 

 the 11th of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., 

 and Mill be continued for several days. 



This society, the first national institution for 

 the promotion of pomological science, was organ- 

 ized in the year 1848. Its sessions have brought 

 together the most distinguished cultivators of our 

 country ; its transactions have embodied their va- 

 rious researches and ripest experience, and its cat- 

 alogue of fruits has become the acknowledged 

 standard of American pomology. 



Its example has created a general taste for this 

 science, inspired pomologists with greater zeal, 

 and called into existence many kindred associa- 

 tions. Its progress has been remarkable and 

 gratifying, but it still has a great work to perform. 

 Its general catalogue should, from time to time, 

 be enlarged and perfected, and lociil catalogues 

 formed, embracing the fruits adapted to each State 

 and Territory of the Union. The last of these sug- 

 gestions was made by the chairman of the gener- 

 al fruit committee, at the seventh session of the 

 society, in the year 18-58. This has been careful- 

 ly considered, and is deemed worthy of special at- 

 tention. It is, therefore, earnestly recommended 

 that each State Pomological, Horticultural, or 

 Agricultural Society, charge its fruit committee 

 v.-ith the duty of collecting information, and pre- 

 senting the same, with descriptive lists of fruits 

 adapted to their location. 



The importance of this subject, and the increas- 

 ing value of the fruit crop of the United States, 

 call for a prompt and cordial response to this re- 

 quest, — for a careful preparation of said list, and 

 for a full and able representation, at the approach- 

 ing session, from all parts of the country. 



The various State committees of this society 

 are expected to submit accurate and full reports 

 of the condition and progress of fruit culture, 

 within their limits, together with definite answers 

 to each of the following questions. These reports, 

 it is desirable, should be forwarded to the chair- 

 man of the general fmit committee, Hon. Samuel 

 Walker, Roxbury, Mass., if possible, as early as 

 the 1st of September, or to Thomas W. Field, 

 Esq., Secretary, Brooklyn, New York. 



What six, twelve and tioeniy varieties of the ap- 

 ple are best adapted to an orchard of one hundred 

 trees for family use, — and how many of each sort 

 should it contain ? What varieties, and hov/ many 

 of each, are best for an orchard of one thousand 

 trees, designed to bear fruit for the market ? 



What six and twelve varieties of the ])ear are 

 best for family use on the pear stock ? What va- 

 rieties on the quince stock ? What varieties, and 

 now many of each of these, are best ada]5ted to a 

 pear orchard of one hundred or of one thousand 

 trees ? 



What are tbe six and twelve best varieties of 

 the peach ? What are the best varieties, and how 



many of each are best adapted to a peach orchard 

 of one hundred or of one thousand trees ? 



Answers to these questions should be made 

 from reliable experience, and with reference to 

 the proximity or remoteness of the market. 



Held, as this convention will be, in a city easi- 

 ly accessible from all parts of the country, it is 

 anticipated that the coming session will be one of 

 the most useful the society has ever held. Socie- 

 ties, therefore, in every State and Territory of 

 the Union, and the Provinces of British America, 

 are requested to send such number of delegates 

 as they may choose to elect. Fruit-growers, nur- 

 sery-men, and all others interested in the art of 

 pomology, are invited to be present — to become 

 members, and to take part in the deliberations of 

 the convention. 



In order to increase as much as possible the in- 

 terest of the occasion, members and delegates are 

 requested to forward for exhibition as large col- 

 lections of fruit as jn-acticable, including speci- 

 mens of all the rare and valuable varieties grown 

 in their respective districts, and esteemed worthy 

 of notice ; also, papers descriptive of their mode 

 of cultivation — of diseases and insects injurious 

 to vegetation — of remedies for the same, and to 

 communicate whatever may aid in promoting the 

 objects of the meeting. Each contributor is re- 

 quested to make out a complete list of his contri- 

 butions, and present the same with his fruits, that 

 a report of all the varieties entered may be sub- 

 mitted to the meeting as soon as practicable after 

 its organization. 



Societies will please transmit to the Secretary, 

 at an early day, a list of the delegates they have 

 appointed. 



Gentlemen desirous of becoming members can 

 remit the admission fee to Thomas P. James, 

 Esq., Treasurer, Philadelphia, who will furnish 

 them with the transactions of the society. Life- 

 Membership, 820 ; Biennial, 82. 



Packages of fruits may be addressed to Thos. 

 P. Jajvh;s, 630 ]\Iarket Street, Philadelphia. 



Marsilvll p. Wilder, President. 



For the New England Farmer. 



TUBKEYS. 



Gov. Brown : — My little boy wants me to put 

 into the Farmer an account of the wonderful feats 

 of our turkeys, and accordingly I submit the facts 

 to your disposal. We have fed white turkeys for 

 several years, the color,like the Caucasian complex- 

 ion, being transmitted by descent. Sometimes in 

 the autumn a flock of them on the hill-side look 

 like a shepherd's charge. Well, now for the Avon- 

 der. One of our turkeys laid fifteen eggs and went 

 to setting. The eggs in the nest still went on in- 

 creasing in number, so that we supposed another 

 turkey laid to her, and took care to shut her out 

 of the barn. Eggs, however, continued to be laid, 

 till they reached aljout thirty, Mhen the turkey 

 hatched the fifteen eggs she began to set with. 

 Meanwhile it turned out that the other turkey 

 had a nest of her own in another place, and she 

 had gone to sotting ; so we were forced to the 

 conclusion that the setting turkey must have kept 

 on laying. This was fully verified after hatching, 

 for she has still kept on laying, and has a nest 

 where she may soon be expected to set again. 



