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ing them a few inches further back than the first, and fill up to their level as 

 before. This is continued, until the pots meet at top. A wide board will af- 

 ford sufficient coping to throw off heavy rain. In severe frosts mats of loose 

 straw will serve to protect them from injury. 



This is a favorable season for manuring and renewing the soil under old 

 and sickly trees. There is no better material for this purpose than well rot- 

 ted manure forked deeply and plentifully among the roots. Grapes on ar- 

 bors that appear weak should be similarly treated, and some of the old shoots 

 laid and covered with soil. These in time will emit roots near the surface* 

 which will impart additional vigor to the plant. Gooseberry and Currant 

 bushes should also receive attention, the soil forked over and left rough and 

 open, the better to expose the larvae of insects, which by this means are destroy- 

 ed in cold weather. Raspberries should be thinned out, properly secured, and 

 manured heavily if you wish superior fruit. Want of proper care in cultiva- 

 tion, is the frequent cause of resorting to expedients which have to be env 

 ployed as a means of counteracting defective management. S<Bv 



NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The regular fall show of flowers, fruit and vegetables, under the auspices 

 of the New York Horticultural Society, opened on the 20th, September, at 



Niblo's Garden. The concert room has been devoted to this exhibition. 



Side tables, ranged along each side and end of the beautiful saloon, were 

 decked with the choicest flowers, the most delicious fruit, and the most pon- 

 derous specimens of vegetables that the gardener's art can manage to raise. 

 In the centre of the room were some half dozen round tables, bearing hot- 

 house plants, bouquets, baskets of flowers, &c, regailing at once the Senses 

 of sight and smell, and indicating the refined taste which devotes itself so 

 successfully to this branch of horticulture. The exhibition, though perhaps 

 not so large as on former occasions, bears the palm over them by the excel- 

 lent quality of the articles. It would be at once a difficult and a needless 

 task to enumerate the beautiful varieties of fruits and flowers, which were ex- 

 hibited. The dahlias were in endless and many-colored variety, and there 

 were some beautiful specimens of fuchsias and verbenas. The grapes and 

 pears are also peculiarly excellent. We would suggest, however, to exhib- 

 itors, the propriety of a more strict and general compliance with the follow- 

 ing rule : 



As a large number of persons visit our exhibitions to learn the names of 

 plants for future use, it is requested that the botanical and common name (of 

 plants, &c.) be distinctly written on the same label. 



An address was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Chapin, on the beauties and use 



