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To Secretaries of Horticultural Societies. 
ʻA EDITORS of this FU URNAL 
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Gardeners Chronicle, 
TURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1874. 
Erorioranis FOR. THE ENSUING WEEK, 
Linnean Societ 
Proceedings of the eteenth Annual 
Meeting of the Wete New York Horti- 
tural Society, held. at Rochester, United 
, may serve to give some useful hints to 
: who think, or act as if they thought, that 
scattered over the country, by far the great 
concern themselves wholly and solely 
To our thinking, this exclu- 
otion to one object is likely to be, even 
not already, seriously detrimental to the 
of horticulture generally. Without 
included in the Proceedings before 
ine of certain 
j: ey formerly of ues “a 
(An orchard culture 
nter protection or care of Grape 
authorised repor 
in a ga 
ily. 
athe ng fruit trees, espe- 
The most suitable evergreen trees fi hedges, 
soci and belts for shelter. s e 
9. The best prere hedge plant. 
I0. Th e n for r pantag hardy fruit trees sua 
Come okar t n shrubs ; also e 
green 
II, ` sit nee st the demand for wood suitable for 
the manufac paper will justify landowners in 
planting cnet? th thölék waste lands with trees adapted to 
this purpose? 
12, Which are the best six and twelve varieties of 
n 
best twelve on shrubs? and the best six évergreens 
ie sma ? 
‘chew are the most ae trees for the em- 
bellishment z small cemeter 
15. arieties of Taiata ‘Sweet Corn and Peas, 
are the best for the family gar rden 
ote. —Mem oi will please prepare their lists in 
response to questions Nos. 12, 23, 14, nem Se and hand 
to the Seotets ary en ve read during the se: 
We purposely abstain from commenting on 
the manner in which these subjects are treated 
in the document before us. Our principal object 
is to show how practical topics may be dea 
with by a society apart from exhibitions, and 
we think the most careless must admit that a 
large amount of good must be done by such 
proceedings even if it be mixed with a good 
deal that is not deserving of permanent record. 
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gladly hear the opinions of our practical 
readers. 
It must be admitted that the a en 
have been made in this direction at t 
gresses that have been held at the “ aires 
shows” have not been encouraging, while the 
larger and more ambitious Congresses that have 
Petersburg, Amsterdam, Florence, and else- 
bere, have been decidedly more successful 
botanical than froma purely hortic cultural 
wi n of e no ti ui 7 t 
something to do with this, Gardeners get what in- 
formation they want more fully, more promptly, 
and, above all, more regularly and punctually 
from the gardening periodicals than they would 
do from Reports of Societies and Congresses. 
We are glad to believe that this is true, an 
hope it may remain s0, still it must be remem- 
bered that the journals are, after all, but news- 
papers, dealing promptly, siuminiatily, and often 
of necessity superficially, with results as they 
are not 
n 
many subjects which from 
adapted specially for the 
a society, would be out of 
journalist. 
their very nature are 
of a 
Fla ttering, ; ; 
opinion that the Horticultural Press to 
extent supersedes the action of the societies, 
we, from our kaea of the work to-be done, 
and of the opportunities and means 
Press has for doing it, cannot fail to 
ular respects the societies d, 
be able to do the work of Ld nag: ed 
ntly than 
ment, do their best according to their means to 
ae er the popan and practice of garden- 
attention, through these colum of the powers 
that be to the radically wide boat vey 
mischievous plan of ne the trees which 
has within week or two been com- 
menced on the Charing Cross side of Warda 
Bridge. These trees are fine rca of their 
kind, they have cost the public a considerable 
amount of money, and their future welfare is a 
question of almost national importance. Sin 
being planted they have made very satisfactory 
if it was the intention that they should continue 
so, having been from the first tied to their stakes 
so securely that no amount of wind can give 
them the necessary oscillation which alone can 
endow the stems ‘or boles with. sufficient 
strength and stiffness to emie hiena ultimately 
to dispense with adventitious 
It cannot be too widel ma e 
ich should be held E as a 
earlier stages of the pov er such trees as 
these, they require only to be guarded against 
any possible contingency of being blown over 
until the roots have taken a secure hold of the 
round ; and that anything beyond that which 
of the tree 
r 
we complain of. It will be seen that three stout 
square stakes are driven into the ground close 
to the bole of the t tree, nailed v ery closely 
at the top, and 
any paan ‘ours would do, and we need ~ 
saen add that the stakes in question are about 
already the appearance of Jopie 
but while that me e e indivi ye 
rough,” exists, there is- 
excuse — 
getting the branches suit: of harms ray, > 
although this renders it more imperative 
ever that the trees should be properly PARA 
to take care of themse and not, as at 
present is the case, be actually prevented from 
so doing. Not only are these stakes injurious 
to the future welfare of the trees, but 
are a sad disfigurement to this splendid 
thoroughfare, Common sense demands their 
removal 
ds the pruning of the trees, 
suggest that another year some one y 
skill than that of the ordinary 
gardener should be selected to thin them out. 
Board of Works, who are 
ors of CLA ign MMON, in 
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the Conservat 
compliance with the wishes of the 
determi 
the common, alre ead 
resent a park-li 
e those pr 
pone for imitation. 
winter protection of Raspberries ‘dod i Black- 
“Most t Profitable market varieties of Apple, 
y Cherry , Plum, Grape, Blackberry, Currant, 
dwarf Samne syari Far i AN 
